JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 1143.

137 U.S. 202 (1890)

JONES v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 24, 1890.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E.J. Waring, Mr. John Henry Keene, Jr., and Mr. Archibald Stirling for plaintiffs in error. Mr. Joseph S. Davis and Mr. J. Edward Stirling were with them on the brief.

Mr. Attorney General for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an indictment, found in the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, and remitted to the Circuit Court under Rev. Stat. § 1039, alleging that Henry Jones, late of that district, on September 14, 1889, "at Navassa Island, a place which then and there was under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district...

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