Case ID: f-cas_17/html/0954-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BOYNTON, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 9,899.
    Ex parte MUDD.
    District Court, S. D. Florida.
    Sept., 1868.
    Homicide — Murder of the President of the United States in Time of War — Military Tribunal — Amnesty Proclamation 1868.
    1. The crime of murdering the president of the United States, in time of civil war is triable by a military commission.
    2. The crime of being accessory to the murder of the president was not embraced in the amnesty proclamation of 1868.
   [Decided by

BOYNTON, District Judge.

Nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible. The above statement of the points determined was taken from 2 Brightly, Dig. 101, 140.]