Feeley v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming; John A. Riner, Judge. Etta Eeeiey was convicted of violating Rev. St. § 2139, as amended by Act Jan. 30, 1897, by selling intoxicating liquor to an Indian ward of the government under charge of an Indian agent, and she brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The defendant was indicted and convicted for violating section 2139 Rev. St., as amended by Act Jan. 30, 1897, 29 St. 506 (Comp. St. 1913, § 4137). The facts are that the defendant sold, in the state of Wyoming, intoxicating liquor to an Indian, a ward of the government and under the charge of an Indian agent.
The only defense the plaintiff in error made was thát she believed, at the time of making the sale, that the Indian, to whom the liquor was sold, was a Mexican. To sustain this defense she offered to prove by a number of witnesses that this Indian claimed to be a…
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