United States v. Hamilton
1 Mason C.C. 152 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts | 1816
Upon this evidence the indictment is not maintained. The place, where the ship lay, was in no sense “the high seas." The admiralty has never held, that the ■ waters of havens, where the tide ebbs and flows, are properly the high seas, unless those waters are without low-water mark. The common law has attempted a still more narrow construction of the terms.
Verdict for the defendant.