United States v. Duane
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
This was a motion to put off the trial on the affidavit of William Duane. Upon the whole it appeared, that the indictment was found against him for a libel on the senate of the United States in October term, 1800, and continued on his affidavit that he was not prepared and had material witnesses who'were absent, &c.
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This was a motion to put off the trial on the affidavit of William Duane. Upon the whole it appeared, that the indictment was found against him for a libel on the senate of the United States in October term, 1800, and continued on his affidavit that he was not prepared and had material witnesses who'were absent, &c. In the same term, he applied to the attorney of the United States for the district, (Ingersoll,) to consent to a commission for taking the depositions of his witnesses, which was immediately assented to. The witnesses proposed to be examined were Wm. Bingham, Jacob Bead, Uriah…
1Opinion of the Court
GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge.
This indictment found in October last against William Duane for a libel on the senate of the United States, was then ready to be tried on the part of the public prosecutor. The defendant professed to be unprepared, and on his affidavit proving the allegation, the trial was postponed in his favor until this term. The public prosecutor is now ready to proceed, and the defendant again asks that the prosecution may be suspended until October next. His counsel have insisted with much earnestness upon some topics which are immaterial in law or unfounded in fact. His…
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