State v. Youpee

The defendant was convicted in the district court of Roosevelt county on a charge of statutory rape. Defendant and his victim were tribal Indians living on the Fort Peek Indian Reservation and both were allottees of land on that reservation to which patent in fee had not been issued, but the crime was committed in the town of Culbertson, in Roosevelt county, which is located five miles or more from the nearest point of the reservation. The fact that the crime was committed off the Indian reservation is not in issue. The Indian minor upon whom the rape was committed was sixteen years of age…