Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (late Vice President of the United States,) for Treason, and for a Misdemeanor: In Preparing the Means of a Military Expedition Against Mexico, a Territory of the King of Spain, with Whom the United States Were at Peace ; in the Circuit Court of the United States, Held at the City of Richmond, in the District of Virginia, in the Summer Term of the Year 1807, Volume 2Hopkins and Earle, Fry and Kammerer, printers, 1808 - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 |
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... charged , that we may have it in our power to understand clearly the specification of the overt acts and to defend ourselves against them . In the first place , we do not wish to know , what the conception of the law is on the part of ...
... charged , that we may have it in our power to understand clearly the specification of the overt acts and to defend ourselves against them . In the first place , we do not wish to know , what the conception of the law is on the part of ...
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... charge against the accessory after the fact ? Is it because he is a principal or because a party accused should be apprised of the nature of the accusation , that there should be a conformity between the charge and proof ? They admit ...
... charge against the accessory after the fact ? Is it because he is a principal or because a party accused should be apprised of the nature of the accusation , that there should be a conformity between the charge and proof ? They admit ...
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... charge the party ac- cused with levying a public war . In 5 State Trials , the indictment against Vaughan does not state that he levied a public war . Foster 208 , 218 , states , that though in case of levying war , the indictments ...
... charge the party ac- cused with levying a public war . In 5 State Trials , the indictment against Vaughan does not state that he levied a public war . Foster 208 , 218 , states , that though in case of levying war , the indictments ...
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... charges that he conspired and agreed with divers persons to the jurors unknown to commit the treason therein specified . In ... charge the war to be a public war or improper to state that the crime was committed in connexion with persons ...
... charges that he conspired and agreed with divers persons to the jurors unknown to commit the treason therein specified . In ... charge the war to be a public war or improper to state that the crime was committed in connexion with persons ...
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... charged with as principals were committed far out of their sight and hearing ; and yet both were holden to be ... charge in the indictment is treason , in levying war against the United States . The objects imputed to the prisoner ...
... charged with as principals were committed far out of their sight and hearing ; and yet both were holden to be ... charge in the indictment is treason , in levying war against the United States . The objects imputed to the prisoner ...
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Page 440 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs, not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Page 189 - On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Page 453 - State where he may be found, and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Page 440 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 43 - Thus saith the Lord , Hast thou killed , and also taken possession ? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 95 - ... him. And to crown the enchantment of the scene, a wife, who is said to be lovely even beyond her sex and graced with every accomplishment that can render it irresistible, had blessed him with her love and made him the father of several children. The evidence would convince you, that this is but a faint picture of the real life.
Page 49 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Page 95 - It wears no guard before its breast. Every door, and portal, and avenue of the heart is thrown open, and all who choose it enter. Such was the state of Eden when the serpent entered its bowers. The prisoner...
Page 94 - Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace and decorates it with every romantic embellishment of fancy. A shrubbery, that Shenstone might have envied, blooms around him.
Page 151 - It is, therefore, more safe as well as more consonant to the principles of our constitution, that the crime of treason should not be extended by construction to doubtful cases ; and that crimes not clearly within the VOL.