United States v. Davis
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Indictment against the defendant [Edmund Davis] for larceny. The indictment charged, that the defendant, on the 15th of May, 1829, in the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, in the district of Massachusetts, a needful building belonging to the United States, the site whereof has been and is ceded by the state of Massachusetts to the United States, with force and arms, one trunk of the value, &c., one bank bill of the North Bank, of the value, &c., one bank bill of the Bank of the…
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Indictment against the defendant [Edmund Davis] for larceny. The indictment charged, that the defendant, on the 15th of May, 1829, in the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, in the district of Massachusetts, a needful building belonging to the United States, the site whereof has been and is ceded by the state of Massachusetts to the United States, with force and arms, one trunk of the value, &c., one bank bill of the North Bank, of the value, &c., one bank bill of the Bank of the United States, of the value, &c. (describing also sundry other articles, and gold and silver coins,) and one promissory…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
We have considered the motion, and are of opinion, that the objection taken at the bar cannot be maintained in point of law, and the motion ought therefore to be overruled. The crimes act of 1790, c. 9 [1 Story’s Laws, p. 83, c. 36] § 16, provides,, “that if any person within any of the places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or upon the high seas, shall take and carry away, with intent to steal or purloin, the personal goods of another,” &c. he shall, on conviction, be liable to- a certain punishment prescribed by the act. It is clear,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. ClaryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1811
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- Lasher v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1891
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