United States v. Simms
This text of 4 D.C. 618 (United States v. Simms) 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
(nem. con.) was of opinion, that, in this case, the force was not sufficient to constitute the offence of robbery; and intimated that the law was correctly stated by Garrow, B., in Gosnil's case, 1 Car. & P. 304.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of simple larceny, and that he was a slave; whereupon, the Court, not having jurisdiction of simple larceny by a slave, ordered him to be taken before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law.
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