Neal v. United States

PHILLIPS, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was tried upon an indictment containing two counts. The first charged possession of in toxieating liquor in Indian country, and the second charged a sale of intoxicating liquor to an Osage Indian, contrary to the provisions of the Act of May 25, 1918, § 1, 40 Stat. 563 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 4137aa), Act of July 23, 1892, 27 Stat. 260 (Comp. St. §§ 4136a, 4140), and Act of January 30,1897, 29 Stat. 506 (Comp. St. § 4137). Defendant was convicted and sentenced oh both counts.

At the trial in the…