UNITED STATES v. DOUBLEHEAD

No. 931.

70 F.2d 91 (1934)

UNITED STATES v. DOUBLEHEAD.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 31, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph C. Shaw, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (W. F. Rampendahl, U. S. Atty., of Muskogee, Okl., Davis G. Arnold and John Mock, both of Washington, D. C., Attys., Veterans' Administration, on the brief), for the United States.

John A. Goodall, of Stilwell, Okl., for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, McDERMOTT, and BRATTON, Circuit Judges.


McDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.

On June 30, 1919, John Doublehead, a Cherokee Indian, was discharged from the Army, and ceased paying premiums on his war risk insurance. After discharge, he returned to his home in Oklahoma, pottered around the house and his allotment, hauled a few loads of ties, got drunk occasionally, had nightmares, murdered a man in September, 1922, and was sentenced to death. While under the death sentence, Doublehead applied for a reinstatement of...

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