BUATTE v. UNITED STATES

No. 18685.

330 F.2d 342 (1964)

Lester Alvin BUATTE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

March 2, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thelton D. Beck, Phoenix, Ariz., for appellant.

C. A. Muecke, U. S. Atty., and Richard C. Gormley, Asst. U. S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., for appellee.

Before POPE, MERRILL and BROWNING, Circuit Judges.


POPE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was charged in an indictment returned in the court below with murder in the first degree in the death of Alice Secody, fourteen year old daughter of a Navajo sheep herder, on the Navajo Indian Reservation within the Indian country in the District of Arizona. (18 U.S.C. § 1111, applicable under 18 U.S.C. § 1152.) After trial to a jury, a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree was returned; judgment was entered...

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