No Warrant to Take Him

A man on a reservation fired some shots near his home, for fun, hurting no one. An official heard about it and verbally ordered three reservation policemen to arrest him. There was no warrant, and no charge had been filed. The officers went to his mother's house. He refused to go. In the struggle that followed he shot and killed one of the officers. At his murder trial the judge told the jury the officers had the right to arrest him and he had no right to resist. He was convicted and sentenced to hang.