UNITED STATES v. SPOONHUNTER

No. 72-1600.

476 F.2d 1050 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alfred Marion SPOONHUNTER, Sr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 10, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Stacy, Asst. U.S. Atty., Cheyenne, Wyo. (Richard V. Thomas, U. S. Atty., and Tosh Suyematsu, Asst. U. S. Atty., Cheyenne, Wyo., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Richard F. Pickett, Cheyenne, Wyo., for defendant-appellant.

Before SETH, McWILLIAMS and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.


BARRETT, Circuit Judge.

Alfred Marion Spoonhunter, Sr., appeals from a jury conviction of guilty and subsequent sentence wherein he was charged with the commission of the crime of forcible rape on the person of Beatrice Mae Potter on July 13, 1971, within the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming. His sentence was entered July 21, 1972, for a term of five years pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4208(a) (2).

The defense was that of alibi. Although the appellant...

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