United States v. Watkins
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
The defendant in this case was arrested on the 1st of May, 1829, in Philadelphia, by a warrant issued at the instance of the United States, upon an affidavit made before a justice of the peace in Washington, D. C., by Mr. Amos Kendall, who, on the 23d of March, 1829, was appointed to the office of 4th auditor in the place of the defendant, who was sent for trial to Washington, by a warrant issued by Judge Hopkinson, under the 33d section of the judiciary act of 1789. In the…
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The defendant in this case was arrested on the 1st of May, 1829, in Philadelphia, by a warrant issued at the instance of the United States, upon an affidavit made before a justice of the peace in Washington, D. C., by Mr. Amos Kendall, who, on the 23d of March, 1829, was appointed to the office of 4th auditor in the place of the defendant, who was sent for trial to Washington, by a warrant issued by Judge Hopkinson, under the 33d section of the judiciary act of 1789. In the progress of the cause a number of indictments were successively found by the grand jury, and were, in some instances, so…
1Dissent
THRUSTON, Circuit Judge,
dissented, and said, that on the day that the argument in this case was opened, he had not sat in court, and the state of the weather, his ill health, and the distance of his residence from the court room, had put it out of his power to examine the authorities on the subject as closely as he could have wished; but he believed he had heard the main part of the argument, and had paid very close attention to it; and he had brought his mind to the conclusion, that the demurrer ought to be overruled, and that the indictment was sufficient. In many of the views of his…
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- Commonwealth v. BoyntonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1806