Case ID: dc_4/html/0186-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. F. H. Pettis.
    In cases of felony, the prisoner is to he arraigned in the criminal bar, or dock.
    Indictment for perjury.
    ' Baldwin and Giberson, for the defendant,
    requested that the prisoner might plead without being arraigned. But the Court ordered him to be arraigned, and he pleaded without going into the criminal bar, or dock.
   The Court,

however, (nem. con.) said, that in the case of The United States v. Pittman, in Alexandria, at April Term, 1828, they had ■ required that he should be arraigned at the bar, in the criminal dock, as in other cases of felony, and that in future they should adhere Jo the established rule and practice.