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RESPUBLICA v. SAMUEL CHAPMAN

1 U.S. 53 (1781)

1 Dall. 53

RESPUBLICA versus SAMUEL CHAPMAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE, delivered a learned and circumstantial charge to the Jury. After stating the proclamation, the issue, and the evidence, be proceeded as follows.

M'KEAN Chief Justice:

The question that is to be decided on the facts before us, is, whether Samuel Chapman, the prisoner at the bar, ever was a subject of this Commonwealth? The reason which has been principally urged to take him out of that description,...

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