People v. Godfrey
New York Supreme Court
THE prisoner was convicted, at the last court of Oyer and Terminer, held in the county of Niagara, of the murder of Thomas Branaghan. The record of conviction having been removed to this court, the prisoner was brought up, at the last term, on habeas corpus.
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THE prisoner was convicted, at the last court of Oyer and Terminer, held in the county of Niagara, of the murder of Thomas Branaghan. The record of conviction having been removed to this court, the prisoner was brought up, at the last term, on habeas corpus. Mr. Justice Platt, who presided at the trial, reported, that the murder was committed in the garrison of the United States, at Niagara, and that both the prisoner, and the deceased, were fellow soldiers in the army of the United States, serving in that garrison; and that doubts having been raised as to the jurisdiction of the court,…
1Opinion of the Court
Sx'encer, Ch. J.,
(after stating the facts.) The question for *190the decision of this court is, whether the cognizance of this offence belongs to the courts of the United States, or to those of this state ? It has been very ably argued, and the importance of the question has induced us to postpone a decision of it to the present term.
The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States must be derived under the eighth section of the first article and seventeenth paragraph of the constitution of the United States, which gives to the Congress “ exclusive legislation over all places purchased by the…
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