STATE v. FOLSTROM

No. C7-82-663.

331 N.W.2d 231 (1983)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Robert FOLSTROM, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 11, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tupper, Smith, Mattson & Finn and Harold R. Finn, Walker, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, James R. Wilson, County Atty., Bagley, for respondent.

Hubert H. Humphrey III, Atty. Gen., Richard B. Allyn, Deputy Atty. Gen., James M. Schoessler and Stephen B. Masten, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, for amicus Minnesota Atty. Gen.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


TODD, Justice.

Robert Folstrom, a Chippewa Indian, was convicted of possession of a pistol without a permit in violation of Minn.Stat. § 624.714 (1982), a Minnesota criminal statute. At the time of the arrest, Folstrom was on Indian trust property adjacent to reservation property. Folstrom claims he was using the pistol for deer hunting. He further claims that the State of Minnesota has no subject matter jurisdiction under the facts of this case. We affirm.<...

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