Case Name: UNITED STATES v. KROUSE
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1821-10
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 815
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. KROUSE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 815–815

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,544.
UNITED STATES v. KROUSE.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 252.] 1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Oct. Term, 1821.
Criminal Law—Peremptory Challenges.
A prisoner indicted for horse-stealing, . in Washington county, is not entitled to the right of peremptory challenge.
Indictment [against Everhard Krouse] for horse-stealing.
Mr. Key, for the prisoner,
claimed the right of peremptory challenge, and referred to U. S. v. Black [Case No. 14,601], at December term, 1819, where it was allowed.

Opinion:
But
THE COURT
refused to allow it, because in that case the court had to decide whether they could not sentence the prisoner to death under the law of Maryland.