In Re Ross
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. The petitioner below, the appellant here, was imprisoned in the penitentiary at Albany in the State of New York.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. The petitioner below, the appellant here, was imprisoned in the penitentiary at Albany in the State of New York. He was convicted on the 20th of May, 1880, in the American consular tribunal in Japan, of the crime of murder, committed on board of an American ship in the harbor of Yokohama in that, empire, and sentenced to death. ■ On' the 6th of August following his sentence was commuted by the President to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary at Albany, and to that place he was taken and there he…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The Circuit Court did not refuse to discharge the petitioner upon any independent conclusion as to the validity of the legislation of Congress establishing the consular tribunal in Japan, and the trial of Americans for offences committed within the territory of that country, without the indictment of a grand jury, and without a trial by a petit jury, but placed its decision upon the long and uniform acquiescence by the executive, administrative and legislative departments of the government in the validity of the legislation. Nor'did the Circuit Court consider whether the status of the…
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