United States v. Bevans
Supreme Court of the United States
The defendant, William Bevans, was ihdicted foi tnurder in the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts. The indictment was founded' on the 8th Section of the act of congress of the *30th of April, 1790, ch. 9. and wás tried tipon the plea of not' guilty.
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The defendant, William Bevans, was ihdicted foi tnurder in the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts. The indictment was founded' on the 8th Section of the act of congress of the *30th of April, 1790, ch. 9. and wás tried tipon the plea of not' guilty. At the trial, it appeared in evidence that the offence charged in the indictment, was committed by the prisoner on the sixth day of November, 1816, ón board the United States ship of war Independence, rated á ship of the line of seventy-four guns, then in commission, and in the actual service of the United States, under the command of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
'delivered thb opinion of th«r court. The question proposed by. the circuit court, which will be first considered,'is,
Whether the offence charged in this indictment was, according to the statement'of facts which accompanies the question, “within the jurisdiction' or cognizance of the circuit court of the United States for. the districhof Massachusetts ?’?
The indictment appears tó be founded on the 8th sec. of the “act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United .States.”- That section gives the courts of th>2 union cognizar ce of certain offences committed on the high sens, or in…
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