United States v. Smith
This text of 27 F. Cas. 1246 (United States v. Smith) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
informed Mr. Dallas, that this was not a landing of the coffee, so as to constitute an offense under the fiftieth section of the law; nor is the defendant charged with landing it. The twenty-seventh section, which makes the unlading an of-fence. applies only to the captain and mate.
THE COURT directed the jury to acquit the defendant, which they accordingly did.
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