Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Bear v. Jameson
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided March 3, 1959No. File 9685PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
In this habeas corpus proceeding the applicant for the writ, an enrolled tribal member of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, questions the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Bennett County, South Dakota, which m 1955 convicted him of the crime of forgery in the third degree. He asserts that the state court was without jurisdiction because the offense was committed within “Indian country” as defined by 18 U.S.C.A. § 1151. The - court be low held the locus of the offense was not within Indian country and entered its order remanding the applicant to the custody of the warden of the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Lone Wolf v. HitchcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Choate v. TrappSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Draper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- United States v. PelicanSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Ward v. Race HorseSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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3Cited by21 opinions
- In Re Rights to Use Water in Big Horn RiverWyoming Supreme Court · 1988
- Smith v. TempleSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1967
- Clarence Ernest Beardslee, A/K/A Clarence Everett Beardslee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
- Lafferty v. State Ex Rel. JamesonSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1963
- Wood v. JamesonSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1964
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