United States v. Knowles
District Court, N.D. California
The defendant [Josiah X. Knowles] was indicted and tried at the June' term of 1864, for murder on the high seas. The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the charge of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtField, Circuit Justice
(charging jury). The defendant is charged in the indictment with the crime of murder upon the high seas. The district attorney does not, however, seek from you a conviction of the defendant for this offense. He asks only a conviction for manslaughter, and the trial has been conducted as if the indictment charged only this lesser offense. Indeed, the facts it alleges as a foundation for the charge would not warrant a conviction of any greater offense. It alleges that the defendant was, on the first day of April. 1864, captain of the American ship Charger, belonging to citizens of the United…
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