Bad Elk v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
EEEOE TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH DAKOTA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The plaintiff in error was convicted in April, 1899, in the Circuit Court of the United States, in South Dakota, of tbe murder on March' 13, 1899, of John Kills Back at the Pine Bidge Indian Beservation in South Dakota, and sentenced to be hanged. The case is brought here on writ of error to the Circuit Court.
Both the deceased and the plaintiff in error were Indians and policemen, residing on the reservation at the time of .the killing.
Upon the trial it appeared that the plaintiff in error, on March 8, 1899, while out of. doors, fired a couple of shots from Ms gun at or near the place where…
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