Court Opinion

ID: 8315235
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:00:27.758138+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:55.155994
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The CouRT
(ThrustoN, J., doubting,)
gave the instruction as prayed by the defendant’s counsel, principally upon the authority of the case of The People v. Janson, 7 Johns. 331.
Mem. This decision was reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States, 11 Wheat. 184, upon the authority of the case of the United States v. Kirkpatrick, 9 Wheat. 720, which was not decided until the 17th of March, 1824, seventeen months after the decision of this Court in this case.