United States v. Coombs
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS case came before the Court on a certificate of a division of opinion between the judges of the circuit court for the southern district of New York.
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THIS case came before the Court on a certificate of a division of opinion between the judges of the circuit court for the southern district of New York. Lawrence Coombs Was indicted under the 9th section of the act entitled, “an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes, approved the 3d of March, ¿825,”. for having,'on the’21st of November, 1836, feloniously stolen at Rockaway Beach, in the southern district of New York, one trunk of the value of five dollars, one package of yarn of the value of-five dollars, one…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is a case, certified upon a division of opinion of the judges of the circuit court, for the southern district'of New York. The. case, as stated ih,the record, is as follows:
Lawrence Coombs was indicted under the 9th section of the act, entitled “An act more effectually to provide, for the punishment of certain .crimes against the United States, and for other purposes,” approved the 3d of March, 1825; for having, on the 2,1st of November, 1836, feloniously stolen, at Rockaway Beach, in the southern district of New York, one trunk of the value of five dollars, one package of yarn of the…
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