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
Theuston, J.,
dissented. He' observed that his indifferent state of health, and the distance of his residence from Washington, had, perhaps, abridged his opportunity of studying the legal points of the case; but he had listened*attentively to the ingenious and elaborate argument upon it on the part of the counsel, and also to the opinion, just read, of the majority of the Court; and he thought that, though the reasoning of the latter might amount to good abstract law, it did not apply, to the case before them. He thought that if so plain a subject could not be understood by argument, it could…
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