Legal Opinion
United States v. Arwo
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 19, 1874PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
86 U.S. 486
22 L.Ed. 67
19 Wall. 486
UNITED STATES
v.
ARWO.
October Term, 1873
ON certificate of division in opinion from the Southern District of New York.
A statute of March 3d, 1825,1 makes an assault committed on the high seas with a deadly weapon a crime against the United States, and the act is made cognizable in virtue of prior law,2 'in the district where the offender is apprehended OR into which he may first be brought.' This statute being in force, Arwo was indicted in the Southern District of New York, for an assault of the Kind just spoken of, committed on a vessel alleged to have…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. ArwoSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
3Cited by6 opinions
- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Chandler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1948
- United States v. BinkDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1947
- Kerr v. ShineCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1905
- United States v. TownsendDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1915
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