United States v. Ward

By the Court —

Miller, J.

The defendant, who is a white man, is indicted for the murder of another white man. The crime was committed in the county of Lyon, in the state of Kansas. In order to show jurisdiction of the offense in this court, it is alleged that it was committed on a reservation of land which, by treaty with the Kansas tribe of Indians, belongs to them, and was then held by them, as their property and place of residence.

The reservation consists of a small section of country, nine miles in width by fourteen in length. In the *200division of the state into counties, their boundaries…