---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3488"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3488"
heading: "Intoxicating liquor in Indian country as evidence of unlawful introduction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3488"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 223 — Witnesses and Evidence"
---

# §3488. Intoxicating liquor in Indian country as evidence of unlawful introduction


The possession by a person of intoxicating liquors in Indian country where the introduction is prohibited by treaty or Federal statute shall be prima facie evidence of unlawful introduction.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 834.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on section 245 of title 25, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Indians (May 18, 1916, ch. 125, § 1, 39 Stat. 124).

The only change made was the insertion of the word “Indian” before “country”, to substitute specificity for generality. (See definition of “Indian country” in section 1151 of this title.)