United States v. Clifford Joseph Littlewind

Appellant Clifford Joseph Littlewind, a twenty-year-old Indian, was separately indicted on two counts of rape, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153 and 2031. The indictments were consolidated for trial because both offenses were alleged to have occurred within a few hours of each other and in the same general area of the Devils Lake Sioux Indian Reservation. One indictment charged that on or about August 7, 1976, appellant did “willfully, forcibly and with violence overcome the resistance of Volante Littlewind, a female Indian of the age of fourteen (14) years, and did have sexual intercourse…