United States v. Johnson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
The indictment, which was founded on the Maryland Act of 1796, c. 67, § 19, charged that the defendant did, on the 19th of April, 1833, “ assist the transporting of a certain slave named Joseph Dozier, the property of Lucy R. Miller, of Washington county aforesaid, from the said county and district, by advice, and by conveying said slave in a gig from.said county and district to the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, then and there, thereby depriving the’said Lucy…
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The indictment, which was founded on the Maryland Act of 1796, c. 67, § 19, charged that the defendant did, on the 19th of April, 1833, “ assist the transporting of a certain slave named Joseph Dozier, the property of Lucy R. Miller, of Washington county aforesaid, from the said county and district, by advice, and by conveying said slave in a gig from.said county and district to the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, then and there, thereby depriving the’said Lucy Miller, the owner of said slave, of the service of her said slave, against the form of the statute,” &c. , The jury…
1Opinion of the Court
But the Court (Cranch, C. J., doubting,)
overruled the motion, as Well as the motion for a new trial; and fined the defendant $50.
2Cited by1 opinion
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