Case Name: United States v. Everhard Krouse
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1821-10
Citations: 2 Cranch 252
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Everhard Krouse.
Judges: 
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: 252–252

Head Matter:
United States v. Everhard Krouse.
A prisoner indicted for horse-stealing, in Washington county, is not entitled to the right of peremptory challenge.
Indictment for horse-stealing.
Mr. Key, for the prisoner,
claimed the right of peremptory challenge, and referred to Samuel Black's case, at December term, 1819, (ante, 195,) 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.