That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person or persons,... Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United States for ... - Page 457by United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875Full view - About this book
| James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...wilful murder or other felony upon the high seas, or within any fort, arsenal, dock yard, magazine, or other place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and not disclosing it as soon as may be to some one of the judges or other person in civil or military... | |
| William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...wilful murder, or other felony, upon the high seas, or within any fort, arsenul, dock-yard, magazine, or other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall conceal, and not as soon as may be disclose and make known the same to some one of the judges,... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 956 pages
...United States," passed April 30, 1790, (1 Statutes at Large, 112,) provides in its third section, " that if any person or persons shall within any fort,...jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person or persons, on being thereof convicted, shall surfer death." This offence... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 786 pages
...exercised that power in the case of a ship lying in the waters of the United Slates; the words " wilhin any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country wider the sola and cxclunve jurisdiction of the United Stales," in the 3d section of the act of 1790,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1818 - 712 pages
...has given cognizance cf this. murder to the circuit court of Massachusetts? The third section enacts, "that if any person or persons shall, within any fort,...in any other place, or district of country, under th? «olt and exclusive jurisdiction of the United H18. States, commit the crime of wi'ful murder,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1818 - 712 pages
...cognizance cf this. murder to the circuit court of Massachusetts? The third section enacts, "that ifany person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal,...dockyard, magazine, or in any other place, or district nf country, under th? sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United lilt. States, commit the crime... | |
| Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 852 pages
...not exercised that power in the case of a ship lying in the waters of the United States : the words " within any fort^ arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country under ihe sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States," in the 3d section of the act of 1790, ch.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 620 pages
...exceeding seven years, and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. «^ SEC. III. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall, within any fort,...jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person or persons, on being thereof convicted, shall suffer death. SEC. VI. And... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 622 pages
...not exceeding seven years, and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. III. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall, within any fort,...any other place or district of country, under the 4ele and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 662 pages
...not exceeding three years, and fined not exceeding five hundred dollars. SEC. VII. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine, or other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States,... | |
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