Legal Opinion
United States v. Archer
District Court, S.D. California
Decided June 26, 1943No. 6528-SDPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtYankwich, District Judge
(after stating facts as above).
Ordinarily, under accepted principles of law, no country may punish a crime committed extraterritorially by anyone but its citizens. Or, to put it conversely, the United States may punish its own nationals for doing something in a foreign country, which, if done by an alien, would not be an offense against the United States. United States v. Bowman, 1922, 260 U.S. 94, 95-98, 43 S.Ct. 39, 67 L.Ed. 149, makes this very plain. The case also makes the distinction between crimes which occur entirely beyond a country’s territorial jurisdiction, and acts which although…
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