United States v. Furlong
Supreme Court of the United States
These were several indictments in the Circuit Court of Georgia and South Carolina. The following are the cases as stated for the decision of this Court: The United States v. John Furlong, alias Hobson. The prisoner was indicted before the Circuit Court of Georgia, for the piratical murder of Thomas Sunley, on the act of Congress of the 30th April, 1790, c. 36. Verdict, guilty. The offence was committed on a vessel and crew, all English.
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These were several indictments in the Circuit Court of Georgia and South Carolina. The following are the cases as stated for the decision of this Court: The United States v. John Furlong, alias Hobson. The prisoner was indicted before the Circuit Court of Georgia, for the piratical murder of Thomas Sunley, on the act of Congress of the 30th April, 1790, c. 36. Verdict, guilty. The offence was committed on a vessel and crew, all English. The person murdered was an English subject. The piratical vessel was a vessel of the United States, and run away with by the captain and crew. The prisoner is…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
A variety of questions have been referred to this Court in these cases, and in the decisions to be certified to the Circuit Court, it will be necessary to notice each question in every case; but in the opinion now to be expressed, the whole may be considered in connexion, as they all depend upon the construction of the same laws.
In the two cases of Smith and Klintock, it has been already adjudged, that the 8th section of the act of 1790 was iiot repealed by the 5th section oi that of 1819, and that the decision in Palmer’s case does not apply to the case of a crew, whose conduct is such as to…
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