Case Name: UNITED STATES v. IVY
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Arkansas
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1847-12
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 554
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. IVY.
Judges: Before JOHNSON, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 554–555

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,451.
UNITED STATES v. IVY.
[Hempst. 562.]
Circuit Court, D. Arkansas.
Dec., 1847.
Federal Coukts—Jubisdiction of Offences in Indian Countbt.
1. The circuit court of the United States had no jurisdiction to punish offences committed in the Indian country west of Arkansas, anterior to the 17th of June. 1844.
2. Cases of U. S. v. Alberty [Case No. 14.42G], and U. S. v. Starr [id. 16,379], cited and confirmed.
[This was a writ of habeas corpus sued out in behalf of Joseph Ivy, who was held for trial on a charge of murder.]
S. H. Hempstead, U. S. Dist. Atty.
E. H. English, for defendant.
Before JOHNSON, District Judge.
[Reported by Samuel H. Hempstead, Esq.]

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT. On hearing this case and carefully examining the evidence, it appears clearly that the defendant has been committed for trial in the circuit court, charged with the murder of parkin Eckles, a white man, in the Cherokee Nation, west of Arkansas, on the 7th September, 1840. The offence having been perpetrated in the Indian country anterior to its annexation to the district of Arkansas, by the act of congress of the 17th of June, 1844 (10 Laws, 583 [5 Stat. 680]), the circuit court of the United States has no jurisdiction to try the defendant, as has been heretofore expressly decided in U. S. v. Alberty [Case No. 14,426], and U. S. v. Starr [Id. 16,379], the doctrine of which eases is deemed to be entirely correct, and decisive of the present Question, and consequently the defendant must be discharged from further imprisonment. Discharged accordingly.