State v. Condon

Citations

• 79 Wash. 97
• 139 P. 871
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1158

Syllabus

<p>Indians — Indian Country — Offenses — Jurisdiction. The Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction of the offense of larceny committed on an Indian reservation by one Indian against another, both being allottees without having received any patent from the United States, and both under the charge of a United States Indian agent, under U. S. Rev. St., § 2145, providing that the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of crimes committed within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall extend to the Indian country, and 23 Stat., 385, providing that certain offenses, including larceny, committed' by an Indian against another within the boundaries of any state and within the limits of any Indian reservation shall be subject to the same laws, tried in the same court and in the same manner, and subject to the same penalties as are all other persons committing any of the above crimes within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.</p>