UNITED STATES v. FURLONG


18 U.S. 86 (____)

5 Wheat. 86

UNITED STATES v. FURLONG, alias HOBSON. SAME v. SAME. SAME v. SAME. SAME v. SAME. SAME v. GRIFFEN and BRAILSFORD. SAME v. BOWERS and MATHEWS. SAME v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

February 21st. These causes were argued by the Attorney-General, for the United States, and by Webster and Winder for the prisoners.(a)


March 1st, 1820. JOHNSTON, Justice, delivered the opinion of the court.

A variety of questions have been referred to this court in these cases, and in the decisions to be certified to the circuit court, it will be necessary to notice each question in every case; but in the opinion now to be expressed, the whole may be considered in connection, as they all depend upon the construction of the same laws.

In the two cases of Smith and Klintock, it has been already...

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