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

Case No. 14,659.
    UNITED STATES v. BROWN.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 333.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1833.
    Commitment — Offence—Indictment fob Break- . ixo Jail.
    A commitment not stating on its face any of-fence, is not evidence of a commitment for felony, although written on the back of a warrant •ol arrest charging a felony, but not referring -to it..
    [Cited in Érwin v. U. S.. 37 Fed. 486.]
    Indictment for breaking gaol, when committed for felony in stealing a saddle. The commitment did not state any offence, but was written on the back of the warrant of arrest, which charged a felony; The commitment did not refer to the warrant of arrest.
   THE COURT

(nem. con.) said, that it was no evidence of a commitment for felony.

Verdict, not guilty. '