United States v. Marrone

McCARREY, District Judge.

By order of the Court, these two cases have been consolidated for argument.

The defendants filed a motion for continuance “ * * * upon the ground that this Court has no jurisdiction to try the offense with which he is charged, this court being a Territorial court abolished by the admission of Alaska to Statehood.” The question to be determined by the Court is whether the defendants should be granted a continuance until the question of the jurisdiction of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska over state matters is determined by an appellate tribunal.

Both the…