Case Name: UNITED STATES v. JACK
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-12
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 555
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. JACK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 555–555

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,452.
UNITED STATES v. JACK.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 44.] 1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. Term, 1801.
Circuit Court District Columbia—Jurisdiction.
This court has not jurisdiction of larceny by a slave..
Indictment [against negro Jack, a slave] for theft. Plea to the jurisdiction, it being a case cognizable only by a justice of the peace, by the act of assembly of Maryland.

Opinion:
THE COURT
decided that they had not jurisdiction, and ordered the slave to be delivered to a constable to be earned before a justice of the peace.