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

United States v. Negro Peter.
    la Alexandria, a prisoner indicted under the Act of Congress, for larceny, has the right of peremptory challenge.
   Mr. Tones, Attorney for the United States, admitted that under the Virginia law, of November 13tb, 1792, $ 8, p. 103, the prisoner, who was indicted for larceny under the Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, § 16; [1 Stat. at Large, ÍL6,] was entitled to a peremptory challenge of twenty jurors.