The Schooner Jane v. The United States
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Cir-¡suit Court for the district of Maryland, reversing that of the District Court, which condemned the schooner Jane for violation of the non-intercourse act... , . Contended that there ought to have been positive proof of the identity of the vessel, If these cases are,to be likened to criminal prosecutions, and if the same strictness be required, it will be impossible to execute the laws.
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THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Cir-¡suit Court for the district of Maryland, reversing that of the District Court, which condemned the schooner Jane for violation of the non-intercourse act... , . Contended that there ought to have been positive proof of the identity of the vessel, If these cases are,to be likened to criminal prosecutions, and if the same strictness be required, it will be impossible to execute the laws. No proof was offered on the part of tiie Claimant. But there is sufficient proof of identity — she is the same kind of vessel, has the same name, belongs to the…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, J.
delivered the opi- . niort of the Court as follows;
This was an information filed in the District Court .of the United States, for the district of Maryland, against the schooner Jane and her cargo for a breach of the law interdicting the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies. The particular charge alleged in the information is, that this vessel had imported into the port of Baltimore from some place in the island of St. Domingo, a dependence of France, 4920 bags of coffee in violation of the above law. To establish this charge two…
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