Case Name: United States v. Summers
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1833-10
Citations: 4 Cranch 334
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Summers.
Judges: (Thruston, J., contrá,)
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: 334–334

Head Matter:
United States v. Summers.
Peremptory challenge allowed, upon an indictment for stealing a slave, in Alexandria, D. 0.
Indictment for stealing a slave, the property of Mrs. Jenkins, under the Virginia statutes of 17 December, 1792, § 29, p. 190, and 25 January, 1799, p. 387, making it a felony punishable by death without benefit of clergy; and the Penitentiary Act of Congress, <§> 14, changing the punishment from death to penitentiary confinement and labor, [4 Stat. at Large, 448.]
A question was made whether he had a right to peremptory challenge, under the Virginia law of the 13th of November, 1792, § 8, p. 103.

Opinion:
The Court
(Thruston, J., contrá,)
allowed the peremptory challenge.
Verdict, not guilty.
But see United States v. Hall, at May term, 1843.