State ex rel. McDonald v. District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of Montana ex rel. County of Missoula

MR. JUSTICE HÁSWELL

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an original application for an appropriate extra*158ordinary writ to determine the jurisdiction of a state district court over criminal proceedings against an Indian for alleged crimes committed on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The district court of Missoula County, the Honorable Jack L. Green, district judge, held that the district court had such criminal jurisdiction and denied defendant’s motion to dismiss. Defendant now seeks review of the district court’s ruling in the proceeding before us.

Thomas E. McDonald, relator here, and…