Donnelly v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the validity of a conviction and sentence of a white naan for murder of an Indian on the Klamath River within the Hoopa Valley Reservation, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
Plaintiff in error was convicted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, upon- an indictment for murder, and, having been sentenced to life imprisonment, sues out this writ of error. The indictment charged him with the murder of one Chickasaw, an Indian, within the limits of an Indian reservation known as the Extension of the Hoopa Valley Reservation, in the County of Humboldt, in the State and Northern District of California. The evidence tended to show that Chickasaw, who was an Indian and a member of the Klamath Tribe, was shot through the body…
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