Barrett v. United States (No. 1)
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE -UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Barrett was indicted, with others, as stated in the caption of the transcript of the record, “ at a Circuit Court of the United States for the Fourth Circuit in and for the District of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia in the district aforesaid, on the fourth Monday in November, 1894, before the Honorable Wm.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE -UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Barrett was indicted, with others, as stated in the caption of the transcript of the record, “ at a Circuit Court of the United States for the Fourth Circuit in and for the District of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia in the district aforesaid, on the fourth Monday in November, 1894, before the Honorable Wm. H. Brawley, United States Judge for’the District of South Carolina, holding said Circuit Court according to the form of the act of Congress in such cases made and provided,” for conspiracy to…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
As to the action of the court overruling defendant’s motion on the evidence to compel the district attorney to elect, the bill of exceptions does not contain the evidence, and it is impossible for this court to know the ground on which the Circuit Court proceeded. The exception in that regard need not therefore be considered.
In respect of the other exceptions, they all present the same objection in different forms, namely, that the State of South Carolina was divided into two judicial districts, and that an indictment could not be lawfully found in the Circuit Court of the United States held…
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- United States v. HirschSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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