Legal Opinion
Tooisgah v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 5, 1950No. 4104_1PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*95HURRAH, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Phillip Tooisgah, a full-blood Apache Indian, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Western District of Oklahoma, for the murder of Lucy Tah-dooahnippah, a full-blood Comanche Indian. Federal jurisdiction over the offense is based upon the allegation in the indictment to the effect that the homicide occurred on June 2, 1942, in Caddo County, and in the Western District of Oklahoma, in Indian Country upon a reservation and a tract of land within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, comprising the Indian allotment of Ellen Mullcehay, patent…
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