Case Name: UNITED STATES v. BROWN
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1835-03
Citations: 24 F. Cas. 1247
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. BROWN.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 24
Pages: 1247–1247

Head Matter:
Case No. 14,660.
UNITED STATES v. BROWN.
[4 Cranch. C. C. 508.]
Circuit Court. District of Columbia.
March Term, 1835.
Cuimixal Law — Evidence — Admissions — Examination bt Magistrate.’"•
What was said in the presence of the prisoner, before the examining magistrate, and to which he made no reply, cannot be given in evidence against him.
[Cited in State v. Young (Mo. Sup.) 12 S.-W. 881.]
Mr. Key, Dist Atty.,
offered to give in evidence against the prisoner [Nehemiah Brown], who was indicted for larceny, what had been said before the examining justice in the presence and hearing of the prisoner, to which he had made no reply.
W. L. Brent, for defendant,
objected, and cited People v. Johnson, 2 Wheeler, Cr. Cas. 377.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
said that the United States could not give in evidence what was said while the prisoner was under 'examination before the justice, if the prisoner made no reply; for he is not bound to admit or deny what is said by the witnesses.
Mr. Key said he only meant to give evidence of what was said and replied to by the prisoner; and the examination was so confined.