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

Case No. 14,800.
    UNITED STATES v. CLANCEY.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 13.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1801.
    Witness— Interest—Owner op Stolen Goods— Release op Interest in Fine.
    Upon indictment for larceny under the act of congress [of 1790 (1 Stat. 112)], the owner of the goods stolen is a competent witness after having released to the United States his half of the fine.
    [Cited in U. S. v. McCann. Case No. 15,655; U. S. v. Brown. Id. 14,657; U. S. v. Tolson, Id. 16.530.]
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranc-h. Chief Judge.]
    
   Indictment [against John Clancey], under the act of congress, for stealing the goods of Luke O’Dea.

The attorney for the United States offered the owner of the goods as a witness. The counsel for the prisoner objected, because, by the act of congress, half of the fine Is to go to the owner.

The witness executed a release to the United States of his half of the fine, whereupon he was sworn.