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UNITED STATES v. SMITH

No. 11989.

398 F.2d 595 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John Henry SMITH, Jr., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Freeman, Jr., Fairfax, Va. (Court-appointed counsel), for appellant.

C. V. Spratley, Jr., Norfolk, Va. (John D. Schmidtlein, Asst. U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and CRAVEN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

John Henry Smith, Jr., challenges the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to try him for assaulting a guard at the District of Columbia Department of Corrections Youth Center at Lorton, Virginia. While the United States has territoral jurisdiction over lands on which the District of Columbia's main reformatory at Lorton is erected, it has not formally accepted, as required by 40 U.S.C. § 255, jurisdiction...

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