Legal Opinion
Sarlls v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 9, 1894No. 872PublishedCited by 39 opinions
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
delivered .the opinion of the court.
At the May term, 1892, in the District Court of the- United States for the "Western District of Arkansas, the plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted of introducing, at the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian country, ten gallons of lager beer, which the indictment averred were “ spirituous liquors,” and the introduction of which into the Indian country was made an offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, by section 2139, Revised Statutes of the United States.
That section is in the following terms:
“ No ardent spirits shall be introduced under any…
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