United States v. Oscar Bear Runner

LAY, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, an American Indian, was convicted of the crime of larceny in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 661 and 1153 in connection with the killing of a calf on the ■ Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was sentenced to two years probation and thereafter brought this appeal. On appeal he alleges three points of error: (1) the restrictions placed by the court upon his cross-examination of the government’s principal witness; (2) the admission of evidence relating to the shooting of a second cow, an occurrence which was the subject of additional charges dismissed…