New York Ex Rel. Ray v. Martin

In United States v. McBratney, 104 U. S. 621, this Court held that the State courts of Colorado’, not the Federal courts, had jurisdiction to prosecute a murder of one non-Indian by another committed on an Indian reservation located within that State. The holding in that case was that the Act of Congress admitting Colorado into the Union overruled all prior inconsistent statutes and treaties and placed it “upon an equal footing with the original States . . that this meant that Colorado had “criminal jurisdiction over its own citizens and other white persons throughout the whole of the…