Wright v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. On April 7, 1894, the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court of the Fifth Circuit, Eastern District of Texas, presented an indictment against Sephus Wright and Thomas Wade, late of the Choctaw Nation, and of Atoka County, Indian Territory.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. On April 7, 1894, the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court of the Fifth Circuit, Eastern District of Texas, presented an indictment against Sephus Wright and Thomas Wade, late of the Choctaw Nation, and of Atoka County, Indian Territory. The indictment charged that these parties on January 9, 1894, “in Atoka County, in the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory, the same being annexed to and constituting a part of the said fifth circuit, and annexed to and constituting part of the Eastern District of…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice White,
after stating the case, delivered tho opinion of the court.
The accused, being Choctaw Indians, and the deceased having been a member of the same tribe, the jurisdiction of the court depended upon the provisions of the act of Congress, approved June 9, 18S8, which is as follows:
“ That any Indian hereafter committing against the person of any Indian agent or policeman appointed under the laws of the United States, or against any Indian United States deputy marshal, posse comitatus, or guard, while lawfully engaged in the execution of any United States process, or lawfully…
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