Baker v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma; John H. Cotteral, Judge. Criminal prosecutioh by the United States against Ed Baker and another. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
Ed Baker and Ernie Black were convicted and sentenced for conspiring to defraud the United States in respect of its trust duties to certain members of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Tribes of Indians and their allotted lands in Blaine county, Okl. (Criminal Code, § 37 [Comp. St. § 10201]). They prosecute this writ of error.
According to its general policy with reference to tribal titles to Indian lands, the government adopted in the case of the Cheyennes •and Arapahoes the familiar plan of individual allotments. As they were not regarded competent to be intrusted with complete…
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