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II. The liability to punishment in Ala the receives[?], who know-ing the facts, took the cotton, thought it within the acknowledged limits of Ala, depends, on it seem to me upon the tenor of The Ala Statutes.

The Common Law, if I mistake not would not regard them as punishable, be-cause it can take no cognizance of the act of theft in another State, in which the translation, originated. I take this to have followed a [?], ...[???], the proposition that the receives[?] of a felon who committed the crime outside of the ^cognizance of the Common Law, (e.g. on the high seas), was not amendable to punishment in England (Case of the Adm. 13 Co. 53); and lastly from the [?] that in England they have statutes providing for the case 2 Russ. Gr. 254: 2 East P.C. 772.

There is more than one case in Mass, to the effect that one who knowingly [?] in that State good stolen in another, is guilty, of [?] punishable in Massth, but those cases