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UNITED STATES v. ARCHER

No. 6528-SD.

51 F.Supp. 708 (1943)

UNITED STATES v. ARCHER.

District Court, S. D. California, S. D.

June 26, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Carr, U. S. Atty., of Los Angeles, Cal., and Robert Burch, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., of San Diego, Cal., for plaintiff.

John T. Holt and Fred Noon, both of San Diego, Cal., for defendant.

YANKWICH, District Judge (after stating facts as above).

Ordinarily, under accepted principles of law, no country may punish a crime committed extraterritorially by anyone but its citizens. Or, to put it conversely, the United States may punish its own nationals for doing something in a foreign country, which, if done by an alien, would not be an offense against the United States. United States v. Bowman, 1922, ...

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