Case ID: f-cas_27/html/1253-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case lío. 16,347.
    UNITED STATES v. SMITHERS.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 38.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1811.
    Peremptory Challenge.
   Indictment under the statute of Maryland of 1705, c. 75, for forging orders on Joseph Wheaton. By the statute the punishment is not death. He was not allowed a peremptory challenge, was found guilty, and punished by whipping, twenty-five stripes. See the act of Maryland.