United States v. Ortega

Thé defendant, Juan Gualberto de Ortega, was indicted in the Circuit Court of the United States for- the eastern District of Pennsylvania, for infracting the law of nations, by offering violence to the person of Hilario de Rivas y Salmon, the charge d’affaires of his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain in the United States, contrary to the law of nations, and to the act of the Congress of the United States in such case provided. The jury having found a verdict of guilty, the defendant moved in arrest of judgment, and assigned for cause, “ that the Circuit Court has not jurisdiction of the…