United States v. Baker
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was an indictment against Thomas Harrison Baker, John Harleston, Charles Sidney Passalaigue, Henry Cashman Howard, Joseph Cruz del Carno, Henry Oman, Patrick Daly, William Charles Clark. Albert Gallatin Ferris, Richard Palmer, John Murphy. Alexander Carter Coid. and Martin Galvin.
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This was an indictment against Thomas Harrison Baker, John Harleston, Charles Sidney Passalaigue, Henry Cashman Howard, Joseph Cruz del Carno, Henry Oman, Patrick Daly, William Charles Clark. Albert Gallatin Ferris, Richard Palmer, John Murphy. Alexander Carter Coid. and Martin Galvin. It was found on the 20th of June, 1801. The defendant Baker was the master, and the other defendants were a part of the officers and crew of a private armed schooner, called the Savannah, and claimed to have acted, in committing the alleged offences, under the authority of the following commission: “Jefferson…
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice,
charged the jury as follows:
The first question presented in this case is whether or. not the court has jurisdiction of the offence. This depends upon the following clause in the 14th section of the act of congress of March 3d, 1825 [4 Stat. 118], as follows: “And the trial of all offences which shall be committed upon the high seas or elsewhere ou* of the limits of any state or district, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may be first brought.” The prisoners, who were captured by an armed vessel of the United States, off…
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