Taylor v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Eastern District of Washington. Ed Taylor was convicted of selling liquor to an Indian, and he' brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error was indicted for and convicted of the crime of selling whisky to an Indian, and upon such conviction was adjudged by the court to be imprisoned in the penitentiary at McNeill’s Island in the state of Washington for the period of two years at hard labor, and to pay a fine of $100 and the costs of the prosecution.
The sole point presented here relates to the instructions of the court below. The testimony in the case is comparatively .brief, and the substance of it may be shortly stated. That on the part of the government tended to show that an Indian…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Beard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Bird v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Mullen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1901
- Foster v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1911
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