Case Name: United States v. Negro Henry Bowen
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1817-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 133
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Negro Henry Bowen.
Judges: (Thruston, J., absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 133–133

Head Matter:
United States v. Negro Henry Bowen.
Bank-notes are not goods and chattels, nor money, and stealing them is no offence at common law.
Indictment, at common law, for stealing a bank-note. Verdict, guilty.
Judgment arrested.

Opinion:
The Court
(Thruston, J., absent,)
being of opinion that it was no offence at common law to steal a banknote.