Legal Opinion
Davis v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 13, 1929No. 5629PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree upon an indictment that charged that he, an Indian within the confines of the Klamath Indian Reservation, the same being Indian country, did on. January 2,1928, with malice aforethought, kill Lawrence Walker, an Indian. The record showed that the appellant was regularly enrolled as a Klamath Indian, and had been allotted lands within the Kla-math Indian Reservation, which the government held in trust for him, and that Walker was a full-blooded Indian, but was not a member of the Klamath Tribes, and that the crime…
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- United States Ex Rel. Bilokumsky v. TodSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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3Cited by16 opinions
- State v. ColemanSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1965
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- State v. CookSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1966
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