United States v. Jackalow
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an indictment against John, alias Johnny, alias John Canoe, alias Jackalow, a native of the Loo Choo Islands, for piracy on the high seas, found and tried in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of New Jersey, and came into the Supreme Court on a.certificate of the judges that they were divided in opinion.
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This was an indictment against John, alias Johnny, alias John Canoe, alias Jackalow, a native of the Loo Choo Islands, for piracy on the high seas, found and tried in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of New Jersey, and came into the Supreme Court on a.certificate of the judges that they were divided in opinion. The jury, in a special verdict, found that the offence charged in the indictment was committed by the prisoner at a certain place described and designated, but did not find whether that place was within the jurisdiction of any State, within any district of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This case comes before us on a division of opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of New Jersey.
The first count in the indictment charges that the prisoner, with force and arms, on the high seas, in waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, on. board of an American vessel called the “ Spray,” piratically, feloniously, and violently did assault one John E. Leete, the master of the vessel, putting him in bodily fear, and did feloniously, &e., seize, take, and carry away thirty pieces of gold coin, &c., of the goods and effects of the said,…
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