Case ID: f-cas_26/html/1138-01.html
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Author: {"author": "KILTY, Chief Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,705.
    UNITED STATES v. MADDEN.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 45.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1801.
    Criminal Law—Presentment.
    The court may order an indictment to be sent to the grand jury without a previous presentment for the same offence.
    Indictment [against Dinah Madden, alias Hopewell] for stealing. Verdict for the prisoner. The testimony appearing to justify an indictment for receiving stolen goods, THE COURT ordered such an indictment to be sent to the grand jury.
    
      
       [Reported by H011. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   KILTY, Chief Judge,

contra, was of opinion that there ought to be a previous presentment by the grand jury upon which to found the indictment. The prisoner was remanded.