Case Name: Peyton v. W. Brent, Jun'r
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1829-04
Citations: 3 Cranch 424
Docket Number: 
Parties: Peyton v. W. Brent, Jun’r.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 3
Pages: 424–424

Head Matter:
Peyton v. W. Brent, Jun’r.
Upon a motion to discharge a defendant arrested upon a capias ad respondendum by a marshal appointed by the President de facto of the United States, the Court will • not decide the question whether he has been duly elected to that office.
The writ of capias ad respondendum having been, on motion of the defendant, returned, cepi corpus, the defendant in proper person, moved to be discharged from the arrest, because the commission to T. Ringgold, as marshal of this District, was issued by John Q,. Adams, claiming to hold and exercise, and then actually exercising the duties of the office of President of the United States, but who was not, of right, President of the United States, inasmuch as he was not duly elected to that office agreeably to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States.

Opinion:
Which motion was overruled by the Court, (Morsell, J., absent,) no other reason for such discharge being alleged by the defendant; and this'motion and judgment of the Court were ordered to be entered on the minutes of the Court.