Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859
Subtitle: together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court
By: by J. Woodruff, phonograph reporter.
Contributors: Bates, R. T.; Woodruff, J.; United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit)
Publisher: Steam-power Press of R.W. Gibbes
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Bates, R. T. -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Echo (Ship); Trials (Piracy) -- South Carolina -- Charleston.; Slave trade -- United States.; Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
"The cases of the prisoners taken on board the brig Echo, charged with the crime of piracy, for a violation of the laws of the United States in suppression of the foreign slave trade, came on for trial in the Circuit Court of the United States ... These prisoners have been included in two indictments of the ten prisoners, first tried, were as follows: R.T. Bates, Alexander Rogers, Archibald Scott, William Henrys, George P. Aken, John E. Copell, John Pasco, Vital De Miranda, Jose Gonzalez Lima, Antonio Milanovich."--p. [7].