United States v. Klintock
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an indictment in the Circuit Court of Virginia, against Ralph Klintock, a citizen of the United States, charging him with a piracy committed on the high seas, in April, 1818, on a vessel called the Norberg, belonging to persons to the jurors unknown. He was found guilty generally.
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This was an indictment in the Circuit Court of Virginia, against Ralph Klintock, a citizen of the United States, charging him with a piracy committed on the high seas, in April, 1818, on a vessel called the Norberg, belonging to persons to the jurors unknown. He was found guilty generally. The facts stated were, that the prisoner is a, citizen of the United States;'that the vessel.in which he sailed as first lieutenant was called the Young, Spartan; was pwned without the United States, and cruized under a commission from Aury, styling himself Brigadier of the Mexican Republic and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
The first and second points made by the counsel for the prisoner may be considered together.
As judgment can be arrested only for errors appaparent on the record, wé should feel no. difficulty in certifying our opinion of the insufficiency of these on that ground, were we not persuaded that from some inattention, the questions which arise properly on a motion for a new trial, have been stated by the clerk as a motion in arrest of judgment, and that the same points, if undecided now, will recur when judgment is aoout to be pronounced. In a criminal case especially, We think it proper to decide…
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