Source: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Date: 1834-10-01
Jurisdiction: United States
Citation: 4 Cranch 469 · 4 D.C. 469
Opinion
The Court (Morsell, J., not very clear, and Thruston, J., doubting, Cranch, C. J., not doubting,) was of opinion that it is an indictable offence, overruled the motion in arrest. (See Chitty’s General Practice, Appendix, II., that an attempt to commit a misdemeanor created by statute, is itself a misdemeanor. Rex v. Butler, 6 Car. & Payne, 368.)