State v. Medicine Bull

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Fred Medicine Bull, Jr., was charged by information of first degree murder. He was tried by jury and convicted of involuntary manslaughter. From this judgment he appeals.

On July 20, 1967, the appellant a 17 year old Northern Cheyenne Indian boy, was driving his father’s 1956 Ford pickup truck. He was accompanied by the decedent, Geraldine Killsnight, age 19. The decedent, who was pregnant with appellant’s child, was married to Fred Medicine Bull, Jr. shortly before in the “Indian Way.” During their drive they saw…