Kennedy v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Question certified by the Circuit Court of Appeals under Jud. Code, § 239.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
The Act of July 23, 1892, c. 234, 27 Stat. 260, and its amendments, 1 the Act of January 30, 1897, c. 109, 29 Stat. 506, and the Act of May 25,1918, c. 86, 40 Stat. 563, make the possession of intoxicating liquor in the Indian Country, as therein defined, a criminal offense. The plaintiffs in error were indicted and convicted of having whiskey in their possession in the Indian Country, in Osage County, Oklahoma, on July 24, 1920, in violation of the acts above mentioned. The case was taken on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit and that court, under § 239 of…
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