Commonwealth v. Macloon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment returned into the superior court in Suffolk against Charles H. Macloon, Nicholas Kearney and Frank Macloon, for manslaughter.
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Indictment returned into the superior court in Suffolk against Charles H. Macloon, Nicholas Kearney and Frank Macloon, for manslaughter. The indictment alleged that the defendants, on December 1, 1867, and on divers other days and times between that day and February 6,1868, on the high seas, in and upon Charles E. Hooper feloniously, wilfully and designedly did make divers, to wit, twenty assaults, and with a club and with a belaying pin and with a rope and with an iron hook and with a heaver in and upon his head, chest, arms, shoulders and back at the several times aforesaid on the high seas…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The defendants, the one a citizen of Maine, and the other a British subject, have been convicted in the superior court in Suffolk of manslaughter of a man who died within the county in consequence of injuries inflicted by them upon him in a British merchant ship on the high seas.
The principal question in the case is that of jurisdiction, which touches the sovereign power of the Commonwealth to bring to justice the murderers of those who die within its borders. This question has been ably and thoroughly argued, and has received the consideration which its importance demands.
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