Case No. 15,339.

UNITED STATES v. HEDGES.

[2 Cranch, C. C. 43.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

June Term, 1812.

SEAT ON JUSTICE'S WARRANT.

The word “seal” in a scroll is a seal to a justice's warrant. Quære.

Indictment for assault and battery upon Bates, a constable, in the execution of a justice's warrant for debt. The warrant had only a printed scroll and the word “seal,” thus (SEAL).

Mr. F. S. Key, for defendant, objected that it was not a seal.

THE COURT (FITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, absent) said that in this part of the country it is a seal according to common usage. Quære.

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge]

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