Case Name: United States v. Soper & Webster
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1835-11
Citations: 4 Cranch 623
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Soper & Webster.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 4
Pages: 623–623

Head Matter:
United States v. Soper & Webster.
The time and place of conspiracy must be alleged in the indictment.
This was an indictment for conspiracy to extort money from one William Hickey, by seizing two of his slaves, and confining them in Maryland, as runaways, so that the defendants might claim the reward allowed by the laws of Maryland for taking up runaway slaves.
After a verdict for the United States,

Opinion:
The Court,
upon motion of the defendants' counsel, arrested the judgment, because there was no time nor place of conspiracy alleged in the indictment.