Case Name: United States v. Louder
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-12
Citations: 1 Cranch 103
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Louder.
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: 103–103

Head Matter:
United States v. Louder.
This Court has no jurisdiction to try a slave for larceny, but will quash the indictment and send him to a justice of the peace to be tried. By consent of parties the Court will try the issue, whether slave or not.
Indictment for stealing. The prisoner pleaded ore tenus that he is a slave of S. B. Balch, and concluded to the jurisdiction of this Court. 2 Hawk. 227. The United States joined issue upon that plea.

Opinion:
The Attorney for the United States, and the counsel for the prisoner agreed that the Court should try the' issue, fact as well as law. Whereupon the Court examined witnesses, and being satisfied that the prisoner was a slave, ordered him to be delivered to a constable to be carried before a justice of the peace and tried ; and the indictment to be quashed, this Court not having jurisdiction.