Henry Billings Brown,
Smith v. United States (151 U.S. 50…
“ In this connection the court charged the jury in substance that, to give the court jurisdiction, it was necessary to charge in the indictment that Gentry was a white man and not an Indian. 'The meaning of that is that he was a citizen of the United States, or, more correctly speaking, a jurisdictional citizen of the United States.' That if he were, notwithstanding the defendant was an Indian, the court still had jurisdiction. ”
