United States v. White
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
This was an indictment against Richard H. White for burning the treasury buildings of the United States. The indictment contained three counts.
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This was an indictment against Richard H. White for burning the treasury buildings of the United States. The indictment contained three counts. The first charged that the defendant, at, &c., on the 30th of March, 1833, with force and arms, “ a certain public building, called the Treasury Office of the United States, situate in the city of Washington, in the county and district aforesaid, one of the cities of the District of Columbia, being one of the public buildings in the said city of said district, belonging to the United States, did maliciously and wilfully burn ; against the form of the…
1Dissent
Theuston, J.,
dissented, and his reason was understood to be,
that there was no evidence that the defendant was not present at the burning.
The jury retired on Saturday, 24th December, at 3 o’clock, P. M., and were kept in their room until Tuesday the 27th, at 2 o’clock, P. M., when they were discharged by consent of the parties, as they could not agree.
On the 6th of January, Mr. Brent, for the defendant, moved the Court to continue the cause to the next term, upon the defendant’s affidavit that Willard Carpenter, of Troy, would testify that the general character of Mrs. Baldwin, and of William…
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