United States v. Faw
This text of 25 F. Cas. 1052 (United States v. Faw) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
at July term, 1808, quashed tiie indictment, being of opinion that it did not set foxfh an offence at common law, or under the statute; inasmuch as by the common law, the coroner was not bound to put •down in writing the evidence, or the effect •of it, and the statute required it to be done only when, by the inquisition, some person Is indicted for murder or manslaughter.
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