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, Band 1Hopkins and Earle, Fry and Kammerer, printers, 1808 |
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... certainly good as a piece of ex parte testi- mony in this stage of the business , though inadmissible on the trial ; that the declaration of Swartwout , as stated in that affida- vit , proves the intention of the prisoner to have been ...
... certainly good as a piece of ex parte testi- mony in this stage of the business , though inadmissible on the trial ; that the declaration of Swartwout , as stated in that affida- vit , proves the intention of the prisoner to have been ...
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... certainly give him an opportunity to make the ob- servations he desired ; and that he intended himself , to deliver his opinion in writing , to prevent any misrepresentations of ex- pressions which might fall from him . As it could not ...
... certainly give him an opportunity to make the ob- servations he desired ; and that he intended himself , to deliver his opinion in writing , to prevent any misrepresentations of ex- pressions which might fall from him . As it could not ...
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... certainly should not require that proof which would be necessary to convict the person to be committed , on a trial in chief ; nor should I even require that which should absolutely convince my own mind of the guilt of the accused : but ...
... certainly should not require that proof which would be necessary to convict the person to be committed , on a trial in chief ; nor should I even require that which should absolutely convince my own mind of the guilt of the accused : but ...
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... certainly it could not . The crime really com- pleted was a conspiracy to commit treason , not an actual com- mission of treason . If these communications were not treason at the instant they were made , no lapse of time can make them ...
... certainly it could not . The crime really com- pleted was a conspiracy to commit treason , not an actual com- mission of treason . If these communications were not treason at the instant they were made , no lapse of time can make them ...
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... certainly decid- ed by the fact . If when Mr. Swartwout left colonel Burr , which must be supposed to have been in July , he was actually embo- dying men from New - York to the western states , what could veil his troops from human ...
... certainly decid- ed by the fact . If when Mr. Swartwout left colonel Burr , which must be supposed to have been in July , he was actually embo- dying men from New - York to the western states , what could veil his troops from human ...
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Seite 582 - 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.
Seite 24 - The people of the country to which we are going are prepared to receive us; their agents, now with Burr, say that if we will protect their religion, and will not subject them to a foreign Power, that in three weeks all will be settled.
Seite 348 - That in cases punishable with death, the trial shall be had in the county where the offence was committed, or where that cannot be done without great inconvenience, twelve petit jurors at least shall be summoned from thence.
Seite 412 - The opinion which has been avowed by the court, is, that light impressions which may fairly be supposed to yield to the testimony that may be offered ; which may leave the mind open to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror ; but that those strong and deep impressions, which will close the mind against the testimony that may be offered in opposition to them ; which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection...
Seite 235 - I may either move for a rule to show cause why an attachment should not issue against Judge Toulmin, John G.
Seite 546 - And if any person or persons shall, by force, set at liberty, or rescue the fugitive from such agent while transporting, as aforesaid, the person or persons so offending shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year.
Seite 242 - It is certainly not only a possible, but a probable case, that a witness by disclosing a single fact may complete the testimony against himself...