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.]

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