United States v. Six Hundred & Sixty-One Bales of Tobacco

THE COURT

(charging jury). We have been engaged, gentlemen, now for eleven days, in the investigation of this important cause—important to the government, important to the claimants, and involving as important questions respecting the transactions of these merchants with the government on the other side, as can be involved in any suit coming before a court and a jury in this court. Nearly eleven years ago, when I commenced my judicial labors in this court, the first case that I tried was a case of seizure of merchandise for alleged frauds in the entry of it at the custom house, and during my…