UNITED STATES v. JOHN

No. 76-1518.

560 F.2d 1202 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Smith JOHN and Harry Smith John, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin R. Smith, Philadelphia, Miss. (Court-appointed), for defendants-appellants.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Daniel E. Lynn, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Larry G. Gutterridge, Peter R. Taft, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COLEMAN, GODBOLD and HILL, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

Smith John and his son, Harry Smith John, are Mississippi residents, of Choctaw Indian blood. In the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi they were indicted for the commission of a felonious assault, with intent to kill, upon one Artis Jenkins, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153 and 113(a). The indictment charged that the defendants were Indians, that the offense was committed in the Northeast Quarter of Section...

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