United States v. Louder
This text of 1 D.C. 103 (United States v. Louder) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering District Court, District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The Attorney for the United States, and the counsel for the prisoner agreed that the Court should try the' issue, fact as well as law. Whereupon the Court examined witnesses, and being satisfied that the prisoner was a slave, ordered him to be delivered to a constable to be carried before a justice of the peace and tried ; and the indictment to be quashed, this Court not having jurisdiction.
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