Lujan v. United States

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

Cesario Lujan, an Indian resident of the Taos Pueblo in the District of New Mexico, appeals from a judgment and sentence after conviction for assaulting another Indian, Sam Archuleta, with a dangerous weapon, in the Taos Pueblo on the 6th day of November, 1952, in violation of Section 1153 U.S.C.A. Title 18. 1

On the commencement of/ the trial the court called an Indian named John Concha to be sworn to act as the interpreter for the non-English speaking Indian witnesses in the case. Before he was sworn, the defendant objected to Concha as an interpreter on the grounds…