State v. Davids

This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals, State v. Davids, 182 Wis. 2d 186, 514 N.W.2d 23 (Ct. App. 1994), which reversed the judgment of the circuit court for Shawano County, Thomas G. Grover, Circuit Judge. The issue before the circuit court was whether the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation, as its boundaries were defined by the Treaty of 1856, was diminished1 by federal legislation in 1871 and terminated by federal legislation in 1906, thereby placing the area encompassing Upper Gresham Pond under state jurisdiction and requiring all who fished there to have a valid…