In re Now-ge-zhuck

Citations

• 69 Kan. 410
• 76 P. 877
• 1904 Kan. LEXIS 264

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COUBT.</p> <p>Subisdiction—Power of State Courts to Punish Indian Allottees for Violations of State Laws. The act of congress of February 8, 1887 (24 U. S. Stat. at L., ch. 119), providing for the allotment of lands constituting a reservation to the Indians in severalty and the issuing of patents to the allottees therefor, and further providing that, upon the completion of said allotments and the issuing of patents to each of the allottees constituting the tribe, each allottee should have the benefit of, and be subject to, the laws, both civil and criminal, of the state in which he might reside, confers jurisdiction on the state courts to try and piinish an allot-tee for any violation of the laws of the state, though the offense committed be one against the person or property of an Indian or other person within the limits of an Indian reservation.</p>