Title: Report of the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania versus John Smith, Esq., marshal of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania
Subtitle: containing the speeches of the attorney general and Jared Ingersoll, Esq. on behalf of the commonwealth, and William Lewis, Esq. on the part of the defendant, and also the opinion of the Honorable William Tilghman, Esq., chief justice of the state of Pennsylvania
Subjects: Trials, litigation, Federal-state controversies, Pennsylvania, United States, Prize law, Trials (False imprisonment), Habeas corpus, Jurisdiction
Places: United States, Pennsylvania
People: John Smith marshal, Elizabeth Sergeant