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ORNELAS v. UNITED STATES

No. 15036.

236 F.2d 392 (1956)

Philip Carl ORNELAS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

August 27, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Carl Ornelas, in pro. per.

Franklin P. Rittenhouse, U. S. Atty., Howard W. Babcock, Asst. U. S. Atty., Las Vegas, Nev., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and LEMMON and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges.

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding from a judgment of the district court denying a motion to vacate and set aside a judgment and life sentence in a jury tried case. In it appellant, an Indian, was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada on June 24, 1954, of a second degree murder of one Daisy Morgan (a 73 or 74 year old Indian woman) "within Indian country" near Reno, Nevada, in violation of...

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