Argument before the United States Circuit Court
By: by Isaac W. Hayne, Esq., on the motion to discharge the crew of the Echo, delivered in Columbia, S.C., December, 1858 ; reported by Douglass A. Levien.
Contributors: Bates, R. T.; Levien, Douglas A.
Publisher: Weed, Parsons & Company, printers
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Bates, R. T. -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Echo (Ship); Habeas corpus -- South Carolina.; Trials (Piracy) -- South Carolina.
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
"The crew of the brig Putnam, (Echo,) charged under the Act of Congress of May 15th, 1820, with piracy on the high seas, were brought before the United States Circuit court, at Columbia, South Carolina, on a writ of habeas corpus, and a motion made for their discharge, the Grand jury of Richland district having refused to find a true bill against them"--p. [3]
"On habeas corpus. Motion of R. T. Bates and others to be discharged from custody"--Federal cases, v. 2, p. 1016.