Melville Fuller

“ Hewecker was indicted for the murder of one Miller on January 17, 1892, in the Bay of Havana, off the Island of Cuba, on board an American vessel, within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, in the circuit court of the United States for the Southern District of New York ”

“ Rider applies, and that the act furnishes the exclusive rule. The appellate jurisdiction was increased in many respects by that act, and was curtailed in others; and, while enlarged in criminal cases in favor of defendants, it was at the same time circumscribed as to the United States by the specific provisions relating to the particular subject, conceding that under the Revised Statutes the remedy by certificate was open, to be availed of by the United States. ”