United States v. Peterson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was an indictment against the prisoners [John Peterson and others] found at this term, in two counts. The first count alleged, that one Baily Foster, on the 7th of May, 1846, was master on board the American vessel Charles Carroll, bound from New Orleans to Boston, and the prisoners, a part of his crew; and that, on the day aforesaid, upon the high seas, they resisted him with force, while “in the free and lawful exercise of his authority,” and thus created a revolt,…
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This was an indictment against the prisoners [John Peterson and others] found at this term, in two counts. The first count alleged, that one Baily Foster, on the 7th of May, 1846, was master on board the American vessel Charles Carroll, bound from New Orleans to Boston, and the prisoners, a part of his crew; and that, on the day aforesaid, upon the high seas, they resisted him with force, while “in the free and lawful exercise of his authority,” and thus created a revolt, contrary to the act of congress in such case made ana provided. The second count charged them, at the same time and place,…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Justice,
charged the jury, and, in relation to the law applicable to "the subject, informed them that he did not feel justified in stating it to be as the counsel for the prisoners desired. He must decline giving it to them in charge, as requested, on any of the points, without important limitations and - qualifications. However revolts may have been defined at common law, or under the act of congress of April 30, 1790, c. 9 [1 Stat. 112], they were now to be considered and punished only as provided by the act of the 3d of March, 1S35, c. 40 (4 Stat. 775). That act, instead…
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