United States v. Ishibashyi

Tbis case presents an indictment containing four counts, two of which charge tbe defendant with tbe crime of adultery, and two with that of fornication, to which tbe de*518fondant demurs on the ground that “this court is without jurisdiction to try the said offenses or any of them charged under said indictment for the reason that said act of Congress of March 3, 1887, under which said indictment is laid, was not, at the time the offense charged in said indictment are alleged to have been committed, nor at the time said indictment was returned, nor at any time whatsoever, in force within said…