Case Name: TERRITORY vs. HATTICK
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1811
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 87
Docket Number: 
Parties: TERRITORY vs HATTICK.
Judges: Martin, J. concurred.
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 87–88

Head Matter:
TERRITORY vs HATTICK.
The parts of the Constitution or U. S. requiring all trials to be by jury, relate duly to offences against the U. S.
Habeas corpus. He was committed by the Mayor of the city of New-Orleans, who is a Justice of the peace ex officio, on a judgment condemning him to fine and imprisonment.
Hennen, for the defendant.
He ought to be discharged: for the act authorisiug justices of the peace to fine and imprison, is unconstitutional. It violates the constitution of the United States, art. 3, sec. 2, which requires that the trial of all crimes should be by a jury and the 6th article of the amendments, which requires the intervention of a grand jury also.
If the authority can be constitutionally exercised, the mittimus is insufficient. For it does not shew that the defendant was charged on oath, nor that he was duly served with process and. had an opportunity of introducing his testimony, as the 8th amendment to the constitution of the, United States requires.
The Attorney-General, Duncan.
The parts of the constitution of the United States, and its amendments, invoked, relate only to the trials of crimes against the United States.
The mittimus is sufficient. It describes the offence and states that judgment was given.

Opinion:
Lewis, J.
The Attorney-General is certainly in the right. The part of the constitution of the United States quoted, relates only to the exercise of the judicial powers of the United States. Admitting, however, that the trial should have been by a jury, the objection will not prevail on an habeas corpus, for it does not appear on the face of the mittimus that it was otherwise. The same observation is also applicable to the second point made by the defendant. The objection might be listened to on a writ to quash the proceedings. The mittimus is complete, if it shews that there was a judgment by a magistrate or a court authorised to give it.
Martin, J. concurred.
Prisoner remanded.
The decision took place out of Court.