NESBETT, Chief Justice.
The question first to be determined is whether the United States District Court for the District (Territory) of Alaska, acting as an interim transition court for the period between the admission of Alaska into the Union and the organization of its constitutional courts, had jurisdiction to try the appellant for larceny.
Appellant was indicted on October 27, 1958, for larceny in a building, which was not a federal offense. Alaska was...
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