 In United States v. Paul ( 1832 ) — involving a criminal burglary at West Point , prosecuted via an 1829 New York statute defining burglary in the third degree — the Court held that the assimilative crimes provision was limited to state crimes in force at the time of the federal statute 's enactment . The 1866 , 1874 , 1898 , 1909 , 1933 , 1935 , and 1940 re @-@ enactments of the assimilative crimes offense explicitly incorporated this interpretation of Paul . 
