United States v. Rodgers
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION IN OPINION FROM THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. In February, 1S88, the defendant, Robert S. Rodgers and others, were indicted in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan for assaulting, in August, 188J, with a dangerous weapon, one James Downs, on board of the steamer Alaska., a vessel belonging to citizens of the United States, and then being within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and not within…
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CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION IN OPINION FROM THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. In February, 1S88, the defendant, Robert S. Rodgers and others, were indicted in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan for assaulting, in August, 188J, with a dangerous weapon, one James Downs, on board of the steamer Alaska., a vessel belonging to citizens of the United States, and then being within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and not within the jurisdiction of any particular State of the United States, viz. within the territorial limits of the Dominion of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Eield
delivered the.opinion of the court.
Several questions of interest arise upon the construction of section 5346 of the Bevised Statutes, upon which the indict*253ment in this case was found. The principal one is whether the term “ high seas,” as there used, is applicable to the open, unenclosed waters of the Great Lakes, between which the Detroit River is a connecting stream. The term was formerly used, particularly by writers on public law, and generally in official communications between different governments, to designate the open, unenclosed waters of the ocean, or of the British seas, outside…
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