United States v. Henry Thomas Good Shield

HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Henry Thomas Good Shield, a Winnebago Indian, was charged by indictment with the crime of first degree murder committed on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1158 and 1111. He was tried to a jury and was found guilty of second degree murder; the District Court sentenced appellant to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years. He appeals.

Appellant complains that the indictment against him charged that he murdered one Steven Charles Wright, Jr. by beating him with an ax, but that the evidence in the case showed that the…