UNITED STATES v. RAMSEY

No. 1061.

271 U.S. 467 (1926)

UNITED STATES v. RAMSEY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Mitchell, with whom Assistant Attorney General Luhring and Mr. Roy St. Lewis were on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. William S. Hamilton and S.P. Freeling, with whom Messrs. J.M. Springer, Edward C. Gross, and J.I. Howard were on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendants in error, two white men, were charged, by an indictment returned in the court below, with the murder of one Henry Roan, a full-blood Osage Indian and a legal member of the Osage Tribe, committed "in Osage County, in said district, in the Indian country and in and upon the reservation theretofore and then established by law of the United States for the...

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