MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Duane Davis, an Indian, appeals his conviction of the crime of assaulting Betsy E. Brunelle, also an Indian, with a dangerous weapon, a pistol, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1153, the so-called Ten Major Crimes Act. We reverse the judgment of conviction.
The crucial question presented is whether an unloaded pistol is a "dangerous weapon" within the meaning...
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