KENNEDY v. UNITED STATES

No. 222.

265 U.S. 344 (1924)

KENNEDY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James Patrick Gilmore, with whom Mr. Phil D. Brewer, Mr. F.F. Nelson, Mr. J.H. Everest, Mr. Ed. S. Vaught and Mr. Robert K. Everest were on the briefs, for Kennedy et al.

Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Byron M. Coon, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Act of July 23, 1892, c. 234, 27 Stat. 260, and its amendments,1 the Act of January 30, 1897, c. 109, 29 Stat. 506, and the Act of May 25, 1918, c. 86, 40 Stat. 563, make the possession of intoxicating liquor in the Indian Country, as therein defined, a criminal offense. The plaintiffs in error were indicted and convicted of having whiskey...

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