Case Name: United States v. Andrew Scholfield
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1805-11
Citations: 1 Cranch 255
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Andrew Scholfield.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 255–255

Head Matter:
United States v. Andrew Scholfield.
A master cannot bring bis apprentice from Maryland and hold him.in Alexandria.
Indictment for false imprisonment of James Carter, a mulatto boy. .
Mr. Swann, for the defendant,
moved the Court to instruct the jury, that the evidence does not"support the indictment. The evidence was that the boy (who was a free mulatto) was bound to the defendant, in Maryland. The defendant brought him into Alexandria. By the law of Maryland the indenture was void if he carried him out of that State. The defendant having brought him to Alexandria, sold his time to Hodgkins.

Opinion:
The CouRT
refused to give the instruction.
Mr. Swann then moved the Court to instruct them that the indictment could not be supported without proof of a sale by defendant to Hodgkins, that being charged in the indictment.
Refused, the offence of false imprisonment being sufficiently charged, and the sale only matter of aggravation.