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THE COURT'S INSTRUCTION TO THE JURY IN REGARD TO
KEY, FOR THE MURDER OF MAHON.
"Gentlemen of the Jury: We feel it our duty to give you in a form somewhat less technical than the prayers submitted by counsel, some instruction as to the law applicable to the evidence in this case, so that after you find the facts proved by the evidence
[*]GEORGE SINGLETON KEY.
(which is your exclusive province) you may be able to apply the law to them by your verdict. George Singleton Key, one of the prisoners at the bar, stands indicted for the murder of James Mahon, at Navassa Island, on the 14th of September, 1889. Murder, under the Jaw of the United States, is the felonious, wilful killing of a human being, with malice aforethought. Malice has been defined to be that condition of a man when he is totally devoid of social feeling, and fatally bent on mischief, and includes not alone hatred and ill will, but every bad and unjusti-
