State v. Doxtater
Wisconsin Supreme Court
' CERTIFIED on exceptions from the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case is stated in the opinion. The cause was submitted on the brief of John J. Tracy for the defendant, and that of the Attorney General for the state.
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' CERTIFIED on exceptions from the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case is stated in the opinion. The cause was submitted on the brief of John J. Tracy for the defendant, and that of the Attorney General for the state. Defendant’s counsel contended, that if the omission of the legislature to except the members of the Oneida nation, on its reservation, from the operation of our criminal statutes, makes them liable to the penalties therein described, then the omission to except them from the operation of our civil laws must work the same result. Against -this view of the authority of the…
1Opinion of the CourtTayloR, J.
The defendant was tried upon an information *282for adultery, in the circuit court for Brown county in this state, and found guilty by the verdict of the jury. The proof showed, and it was admitted upon the trial, that the adultery was committed at the house of the defendant and within the limits of the Oneida reservation; that the defendant was an Oneida Indian, and a member of the tribe of the Oneidas living on said reservation; and that the woman with whom he committed the adultery was a married woman, not an Indian or a member of the tribe.
After the conviction, the defendant moved to set…
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