United States v. Arwo
Supreme Court of the United States
United States v. Arwo, 86 U.S. 486 (1873)
United States v. Arwo
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Instead of answering separately the questions certified here, I am instructed to say, that the court, upon the facts alleged in the plea, is of the opinion, that the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York had jurisdiction in this case, and that the court directs that this statement be' certified to the Circuit Court as the only answer required to the several questions presented on the record.
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- Under the act of March 3d, 1825, § 22, by which an assault on a person upon the high seas with a dangerous weapon is made an offence against the United States, and' the trial of the offence is to be “ in the district where the offender is apprehended, OR into which he may first be brought,” a person is triable in the Southern District of New York who, on a'vessel owned by citizens of the United States, has committed on the high seas the offence specified; has been then put in irons for safe-keeping has, on the arrival of the vessel at anchorage at the lower quarantine in the Eastern District of New York, been delivered to officers of the State of New York, in order that he may be forthcoming, &c.; and has been by'them carried-into the Southern District and there delivered to the marshal of the United States for that district, to whom a warrant to apprehend and bring him to justice was first issued.