Hallowell v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the authority of Congress to regulate the introduction of liquor into lands of allottee Indians, and the construction of provisions of the acts of August 7, 1882, and February 8, 1887, in regard to Indian allotments, and of the act of January 30, 1897, in regard to introduction of liquor into Indian country, are stated in the opinion;
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
Simeon Hallowell, plaintiff in error, was convicted in the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska upon the charge of having introduced whiskey into the Indian country in violation of the act of January 30, 1897, c. 109, 29 Stat. 506. After sentence, Hallo-well took the case to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and that court certified to this court the question hereinafter set forth.
The certificate sets forth an agreed statement of facts upon which the case was tried in the District Court, as follows:
“That the defendant, Simeon Hallowell, an Omaha…
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