United States v. Doublehead

MeDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.

On June 30, 1919, John Doublehead, a Cherokee Indian, was discharged from the Army, and ceased paying premiums on' his war risk insurance. After discharge, he returned to his home in Oklahoma, pottered around the house and his allotment, hauled a few loads of ties, got drunk occasionally, had nightmares, murdered a man in September, 1922, and was sentenced to death. While under the death sentence, Doublehead applied for a reinstatement of his war risk policy, in which he stated he was not totally and permanently disabled, and accompanied it with a report of physical…