Walsh v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was a writ of error, brought to reverse a judgment rendered in the district court for Massachusetts in September, 1846. The original proceeding in which judgment was rendered was an information against [Richard] Walsh, for that he did “aid in removing, storing or otherwise securing” a certain quantity of cigars, which liad been landed without special iicense, from a vessel at Boston, within this district, on the 9th of May. 1845, importing them from abroad, and which…
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This was a writ of error, brought to reverse a judgment rendered in the district court for Massachusetts in September, 1846. The original proceeding in which judgment was rendered was an information against [Richard] Walsh, for that he did “aid in removing, storing or otherwise securing” a certain quantity of cigars, which liad been landed without special iicense, from a vessel at Boston, within this district, on the 9th of May. 1845, importing them from abroad, and which landing without license was known to said Walsh. [Case unreported.] The objections insisted on at the trial, as well as…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Justice.
The original information was here founded on a supposed violation of the 50th section of the act of congress, of March 2, 1799 (1 Stat. 605). That section punishes with a penalty of $400. and disability for seven years to hold any office of trust or profit under the United States, the unlading or delivery of any goods from a foreign port, “at any time without a permit from the collector or naval officer, if any, for such unlading or delivery." And it punishes in a like maimer, “if any goods. &c„ shall be unladen or delivered from any such ship or vessel, contrary to…
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