Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
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Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court in direct contravention of 356 bales of cotton (1825); The SARAH, 5 LEd 644 8WHEAT 391; Forsythe v. The United States, 9 HOWARD 571, 13 LEd 262, and the 1922 Balzac v. Porto Rico, 298 U.S. 298, 312; and ih direct conflict with the definition presented as "District Court of the United States" by this Court in Mookini v. United States, 303 U.S. 201, (1938) and Confirmed in Nguyen v. United States, 539 U.S. 69 in the Historical Sense Quoting Mookini; and within the Advisory noted of Rule 54 of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court