United States v. Hastings
This text of 5 D.C. 115 (United States v. Hastings) 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
(Thruston, J., absent,) remitted the remaining part of the sentence of imprisonment, but not as to the costs.
The Court had previously (nem. con.) refused a new trial, having great doubt of their power to rescind the sentence after it was in part executed. Cranch, C. J., however, was inclined to the opinion that the Court had the power to do so, and to grant a new trial.
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