Charge to Grand Jury—Neutrality Laws
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio
In regard to aiding or favoring unlawful military combinations, by our citizens, against any foreign government, or people, with whom we are at peace.
1Opinion of the CourtMcLEAN, Circuit Judge
(charging grand jury). Your particular and most serious attention is requested to the provisions of an act entitled “An act' to punish certain offences against the United States” [3 Stat. 447]. By the first section of this act, it is declared, “that if any citizen of the United States shall, within the territory or jurisdiction thereof, accept and exercise a commission to serve a foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, he shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and be fined not more than two thousand dollars, and imprisoned not…
2Cited by1 opinion
- United States v. O'SullivanDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1851