Addressing ourselves to the first of the questions presented by the record — the question of jurisdiction — it may be remarked that clearly the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction of the crime of murder committed within the district of Kentucky, unless it was conferred by the third section of the act of Congress of April 9th, 1866.
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