Source: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Date: 1834-10-01
Jurisdiction: United States
Citation: 4 Cranch 470 · 4 D.C. 470
Opinion
Indictment for stealing a pair of shoes, of the value of one dollar. The prisoner pleaded guilty; and he was sentenced by the Court to be burnt in the hand in open court, and to be whipped with ten stripes. See United States v. John Clark, a slave, at November term, 1825, (2 Cranch, C. C. 620.)