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UNITED STATES v. LITTLEBEAR

No. 75-1291.

531 F.2d 896 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ambrose Ervin LITTLEBEAR, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Binek, Grand Forks, N. D., for appellant.

Lynn E. Crooks, Asst. U. S. Atty., Fargo, N. D.; Harold O. Bullis, U. S. Atty., Fargo, N. D., filed brief for appellee.

Before BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.

TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.

Appellant Ambrose Ervin Littlebear (hereafter defendant), an American Indian, was convicted by a jury in the District of North Dakota of the second degree murder1 of his half brother, Francis Rattlingtail. We affirm.

The shooting occurred on the Devils Lake Sioux Indian Reservation at the mobile home of Lena Dene, the mother of the defendant and of...

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