State ex rel. Best v. Superior Court

Citations

• 107 Wash. 238
• 181 P. 688
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 1006

Syllabus

<p>Indians (16, 17)—Cbiminai, Pkosecvtions—Jvbisdiction of State Covets. The state courts have jurisdiction to try for larceny, committed without the limits of allotted land, a tribal Indian of the quarter-blood who, under the Dawes act (3 Fed. Stat. Ann. 821), was a ward of the government and an allottee of lands in an Indian reservation which had been opened and restored to the public domain, subject to the reservations and allotments; since the reservation was no longer an Indian reservation and Congress has not attempted to enact criminal statutes dealing with acts committed by Indians outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.</p>