State v. Schaefer

*438This is an appeal from the District court of the Ninth Judicial District, Glacier County, Montana, wherein the District Court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss based on lack of jurisdiction because the matter occurred within the exterior boundaries of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. We reverse.

Defendant/respondent Herb Schaefer, a non-indian, was charged in the Glacier County Justice Court on March 16, 1988, with violations of Montana pawnbroker laws, including the charging of excessive interest rates as a pawnbroker in violation of §§ 31-1-401 and 31-T-407, MCA; and in failing to…