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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 14,791.
    UNITED STATES v. CHENAULT.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 70.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1813.
    Extortion—Attempt to Collect Fees Already Paid-Evidence—Contents op Warrant.
    Laboring to exact fees from oue party after having received them from another is not extortion, and whether it is an indictable offence, quaere. The contents of a warrant cannot be proved without producing it, or accounting satisfactorily for its non-production.
    This was an indictment [against Elijah Ghenault] for laboring to exact fees from the plaintiff, after having received them from the defendant, on a warrant before a justice of the peace in the case of Carlin v. Weston.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch. Chief ,T udge.]
    
   THE COURT

refused to instruct the jury that the offence charged was not indictable; but told them it was not extortion.

THE COURT also refused to suffer parol evidence to be given of the coutents of the warrant without producing it. or accounting satisfactorily for its non-production.