Fernandez vs. Arizona (1913)

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Title

Fernandez vs. Arizona (1913)

Description

Juan Fernandez appealed his conviction on the grounds that Dinah Hood's Yavapai grandmother was an incompetent witness. Arizona's Supreme Court justices disagreed, finding that she showed sufficient understanding of the trial proceedings and offered accurate testimony against Fernandez.

Source

The opinion is published in Alice M. Birdsall, Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona, 269 (1911-1941), which can be accessed via HeinOnline and elsewhere.

Date

1913

Citation

“Fernandez vs. Arizona (1913),” Legal Codes & Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946, accessed July 3, 2025, https://legalcodesandtalkingtrees.com/items/show/33.