State v. Kenney
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Lincoln county, Sessions, J., entered November 25, 1913, upon a trial and conviction of giving intoxicating liquor to an Indian.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Appellant was convicted in the court below upon a charge' of giving liquor to an Indian of mixed blood and within the protection of ch. 140, Laws of 1909, p. 537 (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6288; P. C. 135 § 1491).
It is first contended that the court erred in holding that the person to whom the liquor was given was an Indian. The father was a white man, a veteran of the Civil War. The mother was an Indian woman. The statute makes no exceptions in favor of citizen Indians or the offspring of those who are citizens-. If there be the blood of an Indian to the degree of more than one-eighth in the…
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