THE UNITED STATES v. BUCHANAN


49 U.S. 83 (1850)

8 How. 83

THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. McKEAN BUCHANAN.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Gillet and Mr. Johnson (Attorney-General), for the United States, and Mr. G.M. Wharton and Mr. Dallas, for the defendant in error.


Mr. Justice WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error, presenting three distinct grounds of exception to the judgment rendered in the court below.

Neither of these is claimed to justify us in revising the finding of the jury on the evidence, though the verdict was not acceptable in some respects to the district judge who tried the cause, but should have been scrutinized by him, if at all...

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