UNITED STATES v. THOMPSON

No. 73-1412.

490 F.2d 1218 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Alfred John THOMPSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 24, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Garcia, Devils Lake, N. D., for appellant.

Eugene K. Anthony, Asst. U. S. Atty., Fargo, N. D., for appellee.

Before BRIGHT and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and STUART, District Judge.


STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

Alfred John Thompson, an Indian, appeals his conviction of assaulting his wife, Diane Marie Thompson, with a dangerous weapon, a .22 caliber rifle, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153. The Act "authorizes the prosecution in federal court of an Indian charged with the commission on an Indian reservation of certain specifically enumerated offenses...

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