The Railway Station Shooting

A man walked up to the President in a railway station and shot him with a pistol. The President lingered for weeks and died in another state. The accused is charged with murder. He says he is not guilty because he was insane: he did not know what he did was wrong. His lawyers also want the jury told that a man who cannot resist a wrongful impulse is not guilty. And they argue the court cannot try him for murder at all, because the death happened outside its territory.