United States v. Beebe
Supreme Court Of The Territory Of Dakota
Writ of Error to the District Court of Yankton County, Second Judicial District. The defendant, Beebe, in company with W. H. Williams, George H. Cammack, and George Landphere, tlie deceased, on July 4th., 1879, were traveling with a team and wagon on their way from Beloit, Iowa, to Brule City, Dakota.
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Writ of Error to the District Court of Yankton County, Second Judicial District. The defendant, Beebe, in company with W. H. Williams, George H. Cammack, and George Landphere, tlie deceased, on July 4th., 1879, were traveling with a team and wagon on their way from Beloit, Iowa, to Brule City, Dakota. It was alleged by the prosecution that the defendant on that day, at a place near Crow Creek, in the Sioux Indian Reservation, in the presence of Cammack and Williams, shot and killed the deceased while he was lying asleep in camp. The body of the deceased was found near the place of the alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtShannon, C. J.
Silas Frank Beebe was indicted in the court below for the murder of George Landphere, and was convicted of that crime and sentenced.
In the indictment it is charged that the offense was committed on the fourth day of July, 1879, “at a place near the Crow Creek Indian Agency in the Indian country, in a place and district of country under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, in the said Second Judicial District and Territory of Dakota, and within the jurisdiction of this court.”
No exception whatever was taken to the charge of the Court to . the jury. In fact, all exceptions taken…
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