Elam v. United States
| Decision Date | 13 August 1925 |
| Docket Number | No. 6753.,6753. |
| Citation | 7 F.2d 887 |
| Parties | ELAM v. UNITED STATES. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
B. C. Trice, of Pawhuska, Okl., for plaintiff in error.
W. A. Maurer, U. S. Atty., and James A. Ingraham, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Oklahoma City, Okl.
Before SANBORN, LEWIS, and BOOTH, Circuit Judges.
Plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant, was tried and convicted on an indictment charging him with having in his possession on November 26, 1923, intoxicating liquors in and upon Indian country, to wit, Osage county, Okl. The indictment was drawn under Act May 25, 1918 (40 Stat. 563 Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 4137aa), which refers to two former statutes (27 Stat. 260, and 29 Stat. 506 Comp. St. §§ 4136a, 4137), and Act March 2, 1917, c. 146 (39 Stat. 983 Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 4137a), which provides "that all of Osage county, Oklahoma, shall hereafter be deemed to be Indian country within the meaning of the acts of Congress making it unlawful to introduce intoxicating liquors into the Indian country."
The assignments of error raise the following questions:
(1) Whether those portions of the statutes above referred to, which made possession of intoxicating liquor in the Indian country a criminal offense, and fixed the punishment therefor, have been repealed or superseded by the Eighteenth Amendment and the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 10138¼ et seq.). This question is no longer open, having been answered in the negative by the Supreme Court in the case of Kennedy v. United States, 265 U. S. 344, 44 S. Ct. 501, 68 L. Ed. 1045. See, also, McClintic v. United States (C. C. A.) 283 F. 781; Browning v. United States, 6 F.(2d) 801.
(2) Whether Congress had power to enact the portion of Act March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 983), above quoted. This question has also been recently decided adversely to the defendant's contention by this court in the Browning Case.
(3) Whether whisky, which was found upon the person of defendant and seized by the officers making the arrest, could be used as evidence against him. There was no showing that the officers making the seizure were officers of the United States government. On the contrary, it appeared from the evidence that they were city police officers. Such being the facts, the provisions of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States do not apply. Weeks v. United States, 232 U. S. 383, 34 S. Ct. 341, 58 L. Ed. 652, L. R. A. 1915B, 834, Ann. Cas. 1915C, 1177; Youngblood v. United States (C. C. A.) 266 F. 795; Rowan v. United States (C. C. A.) 281 F. 137; Kanellos v. United States (C. C. A.) 282 F. 461; Timonen v. United States (C. C. A.) 286 F. 935; Thomas v. United States (C. C. A.) 290 F. 133; Coates v. United States ...
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