United States v. White
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Indictment against the defendants [John D. White, otherwise called Charles Marchant, and Winslow Curtis, otherwise called Sylvester Colson] for murder on the high seas. They severally pleaded not guilty, and afterwards moved the court for a separate trial, contending for it as a matter of right The motion was resisted on the part of the United States.
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
The present is a joint indictment against the prisoners for murder. They have severally pleaded not guilty. And a motion has now been made in writing, in behalf of one John D. White, otherwise called Charles Marchant, that he’may be tried separately; and this he claims, as a matter of right. The motion is resisted on the part of the district attorney for the United States, who utterly denies that there exists any such right in law; and the parties are now be-; fore us upon the mere matter of right. In capital cases it is always the desire of the court to grant every…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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