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UNITED STATES v. QUIVER

No. 682.

241 U.S. 602 (1916)

36 S.Ct. 699

60 L.Ed. 1196

UNITED STATES v. QUIVER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 12, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Warren for the United States.

Mr. A.G. Granger and Mr. Geo. A. Jeffers for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a prosecution for adultery committed on one of the Sioux Indian Reservations in the State of South Dakota. Both participants in the act were Indians belonging to that reservation. The statute upon which the prosecution is founded was originally adopted as part of the act of March 3, 1887, c. 397, 24 Stat. 635, and is now § 316 of the Penal Code. The section makes no mention of Indians, and the...

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