BROWN v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 249, 250.

171 U.S. 631 (1898)

BROWN v. UNITED STATES. CURLEY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 24, 1898.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. P.L. Soper for the motion.

Mr. John H. Koogler and Mr. John Watkins on behalf of Brown, and Mr. W.H. Twine on behalf of Curley, opposing.


MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

By the act of Congress approved March 1, 1889, c. 333, 25 Stat. 783, there was established a United States court for the Indian Territory. The act conferred no jurisdiction over felonies, but by the fifth section exclusive original jurisdiction was conferred over all offences against the laws of the United States committed within the Indian Territory, not punishable by death or by imprisonment...

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