United States v. Sheldon

delivered the opinion of the court.,

The defendant, George Sheldon, Was indicted in the circuit, court for the district of Vermont, for transporting, over land, in November, 1813, a certain number of fat oxen, cows, steers., and heifers, from a place in the United States to the province of Lower Canada. A special verdict was found which submitted to the court the questions, whether living fat oxen, cows., steers,, and heifers^ are articles of provision and munitions of war, And whether driving living fat oxen, cows, steers, and heifers, on foot, is a transportation thereof, within the true…