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

Case No. 2,779.
    Case of CLAGGETT.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 247.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1821.
    Discharge or Juror.
    A juror who has a cause at issue which he expects will be tried at the same term, will be discharged, and if not discharged, may be challenged.
    Darius Claggett, who was summoned as a juror, made affidavit that he had a cause at issue in this court, which he expected would be tried-at this term, and prayed to be discharged. See Acts Md. 1715, c. 37, § 9; 1778, c. 21, §§ 2, 3; and 1797, c. 87.
   THE COURT

(MORSELL, Circuit Judge, contra)

discharged him.