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ROBINSON v. SIGLER

No. 37845.

187 N.W.2d 756 (1971)

187 Neb. 144

Enoch ROBINSON, Appellant, v. Maurice H. SIGLER, Warden Nebraska Penal Complex, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

June 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence E. Murphy, Lincoln, for appellant.

Clarence A. H. Meyer, Atty. Gen., Mel Kammerlohr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, for appellee.

Heard before WHITE, C. J., and SPENCER, BOSLAUGH, SMITH, McCOWN, NEWTON, and CLINTON, JJ.

SPENCER, Justice.

Enoch Robinson, an Omaha Indian who is now serving a life sentence in the Nebraska Penal Complex for murder, appeals from the dismissal of his application for a writ of habeas corpus. The application attacks the jurisdiction of the State to prosecute an Omaha Indian for the murder of another Omaha Indian on the Omaha Indian Reservation in Thurston County, Nebraska. We affirm.

On January 13, 1969, appellant murdered an Omaha Indian in the...

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