State ex rel. Best v. Superior Court
Washington Supreme Court
Application filed in the supreme court March 17, 1919, for a writ of prohibition to prohibit the superior court for Okanogan county, Neal, J., from trying the relator upon a charge of grand larceny.
1Opinion of the CourtTolman, J.
This is an original application for a writ of prohibition to be directed to the superior court for Okanogan county, prohibiting and restraining that court from proceeding to try the relator upon two separate charges of grand larceny, as presented by information filed by the prosecuting attorney of that county.
Relator is an Indian of the quarter-blood, a member of the Colville tribe of Indians, and has never severed his tribal relations. He was allotted a tract of land by the United States government in 1914, upon the south half of the diminished Colville Indian reservation, in Okanogan…
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