Melville Fuller,
Good Shot v. United States — Opinion of the Court
“ The United States moved to dismiss the writ for want of jurisdiction, whereupon the circuit court of appeals certified to this court, on facts stated, the following question: 'Has this circuit court of appeals jurisdiction to review upon writ of error the trial, judgment, and sentence of an Indian to imprisonment for life, founded upon a verdict rendered on a trial of an indictment of the Indian for murder, by which verdict the jury find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment, without capital punishment? ”
