United States v. Duane
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
[This was an action on the ease for a libel on the plaintiff in the case of Hollingsworth v. Duane, in the Aurora, a newspaper published by William Duane, the defendant. A motion to postpone the trial was denied. Case No. 6,614. The trial then proceeded, the main question being as to whether the defendant was a citizen of the United States or an alien.
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[This was an action on the ease for a libel on the plaintiff in the case of Hollingsworth v. Duane, in the Aurora, a newspaper published by William Duane, the defendant. A motion to postpone the trial was denied. Case No. 6,614. The trial then proceeded, the main question being as to whether the defendant was a citizen of the United States or an alien. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that the defendant was not a citizen of the United States, but an alien, and subject of the king of Great Britain. Id. 6,615. Subsequently the counsel for the defendant moved to set aside the verdict…
1Opinion of the Court
TILGHMAN, Chief Judge.
A motion was made by the counsel for Levi Hollingsworth, for a rule to show cause why an attachment should not issue against you, grounded on an affidavit of your having made a publication in the newspaper called the Aurora, which was supposed to be a contempt of this court. You appeared in court, on the day appointed for showing cause, and when the prosecutor was about to offer evidence in support of the rule, you voluntarily declared that you confessed yourself the author of the publication in the Aurora. The counsel for the prosecutor were then heard in support of the…
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