...But under a statute providing that if any person or persons shall commit, on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offense, which, if committed within the body of a county, would,...

...Provision was also made for the punishment of certain offenses committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State.31 Viscount Bryce, writing in his American Commonwealth, volume 2 (1st ed.), p. 497, and commenting...

...pirate, 1 Which provides, ' That if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would...

...text of § 8 is as follows: " That if any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would...

...statutes of the United States, which punished certain offenses committed upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin, or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." The test applied in Commonwealth v. Peters, which was decided in the year 1847, was that the...

...1790, c. 9, § 8, providing for the punishment of murder, etc., committed "upon the high seas, or any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," it was not the offense, but the bay, etc., In which It was committed, that must be out of the jurisdiction...

...(1 Stat. 112, 113), provided : "If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, • • • every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjudged to be a pirate and...

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...336.) A Federal statute providing for the punishment of murder committed on the high seas or on any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, does not apply to murder committed on board a warship while in waters within the jurisdiction...

...8, 1 Stat. 112, 113, provided for the punishment of murder committed " upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," and provided for the trial of the offender in the district where he might be apprehended qr...