United States v. Quincy
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS case came before the court on a certificate pf division of opinion by the judges of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Maryland. An indictment was found against the defendant in that court at May term 1829, founded on' the third section of the act of .cóngress, passed April 20, 1818, entitled “an act in addition to the' ‘ act for the punishment Of certain crimes against the United States/ and to repeal the acts therein mentioned.”
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THIS case came before the court on a certificate pf division of opinion by the judges of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Maryland. An indictment was found against the defendant in that court at May term 1829, founded on' the third section of the act of .cóngress, passed April 20, 1818, entitled “an act in addition to the' ‘ act for the punishment Of certain crimes against the United States/ and to repeal the acts therein mentioned.” The third section provides: that if any person shall, within the limits o£ the United States, fit out and arm, or attempt to fit out…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
This case comes up from the circuit court of the United States for the Maryland district, on a division of opinion of the judges, upon certain instructions prayed for to the jury.
The indictment upon which the defendant was put upon his trial, contains a number of counts, to which the testimony did not apply, and which are not now drawn in question. The twelfth and .thirteenth are the only counts to which the evidence applied; and the offence charged in each of these is substantially the same; to wit, that the said John D. Quincy, on the-31st day of December 1828, at the district of Maryland,…
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