United States v. Stahl

MILLEK, Circuit Justice.

In this case the defendant is indicted for murder, alleged in the bill to have been committed in the district of Kansas, at a place under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States of America; to wit. at Fort Harker, on land occupied by the United States for a military post, and purposes connected therewith. To this indictment, the defendant pleads to the jurisdiction of the court, alleging that Fort Harker was first established as a military post in the year 1863, under the authority of the war department; that no purchase of the land on which it was…