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

Case No. 15,544.
    UNITED STATES v. KROUSE.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 252.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1821.
    Criminal Law—Peremptory Challenges.
    A prisoner indicted for horse-stealing, . in Washington county, is not entitled to the right of peremptory challenge.
    Indictment [against Everhard Krouse] for horse-stealing.
    Mr. Key, for the prisoner,
    claimed the right of peremptory challenge, and referred to U. S. v. Black [Case No. 14,601], at December term, 1819, where it was allowed.
   But

THE COURT

refused to allow it, because in that case the court had to decide whether they could not sentence the prisoner to death under the law of Maryland.