Case Name: UNITED STATES v. SUMMERS
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1833-10
Citations: 27 F. Cas. 1363
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. SUMMERS.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, contra)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 27
Pages: 1363–1363

Head Matter:
Case No. 16,416.
UNITED STATES v. SUMMERS.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 334.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Oct. Term, 1833.
Criminal Law—Peremptory Challenges.
Peremptory challenge allowed, upon an indictment for stealing a slave, in Alexandria, D. C.
Indictment for stealing a slave, the property of Mrs. Jenkins, under the Virginia statutes of December 17, 1792, p. 190, § 29, and January 25, 1799, p. 3S7, 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. 4481.
A question was made whether he had a right to peremptory challenge, under the Virginia law of the 13th of November, 1792, p. 103, § 8.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, contra)
allowed the peremptory challenge. Verdict, not guilty.
But see U. S. v. Hall, at May term, 1843 [unreported].