State v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Questions of law which, arose January 29, 1892, on the trial of defendants, Mary Campbell and John Belonge, and were certified here by the District Court of Becker County, Ira B. Mills, J. Defendants were indicted for the crime of adultery committed upon the White Earth Indian Reservation in Becker county, and were tried and found guilty. They moved in arrest of judgment, hut were overruled.
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Questions of law which, arose January 29, 1892, on the trial of defendants, Mary Campbell and John Belonge, and were certified here by the District Court of Becker County, Ira B. Mills, J. Defendants were indicted for the crime of adultery committed upon the White Earth Indian Reservation in Becker county, and were tried and found guilty. They moved in arrest of judgment, hut were overruled. The defendant John Belonge was a Chippewa Indian living on the Reservation under the charge of an agent of the Federal government, and receiving an annuity. The defendant Mary Campbell was a half-breed,…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The defendants were indicted, tried and convicted, in the district court of Becker county, of the crime of adultery, committed within the limits of the White Earth reservation, in that county, which had been set apart by the United States for the residence of a tribe of Indians which still.retained their tribal organization, and were under the care and supervision of the federal government. Belonge was an Indian belonging to this tribe, who retained his tribal relations, and lived on the reservation under the charge of a government agent, and as such received annuities from the United States.…
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