JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, a 29-year old Indian, was charged with having murdered his wife, in the second degree, on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was found guilty by a jury and was sentenced by the court to 15 years imprisonment. Federal jurisdiction rests on 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 1153 and 1111.
The wife was shot in the brain, by a bullet from a .22 caliber pistol belonging to appellant — the fatality having occurred...
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