UNITED STATES
v.
ZEBULON CANTRILL

U.S. | 1807-02-28
4 Cranch 167 Supreme Court of the United States (1807) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 2 L. Ed. 584 · 1807 U.S. LEXIS 374 · SCDB 1807-015
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Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,

Marshall, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court, that the judgment ought to be arrested, for the reasons assigned in the record, and directed the opinion to be certified accordingly.

The same order was made in the case of United States v. Baylis, for a similar offence, (a)

(a)

An act of congress was passed at the session of 1806-7, to amend the law in this respect. (2 U. S. Stat. 423.)

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    …J.), appeal dismissed on Government’s motion, 336 U. S. 934 (1949). Much, if not all, of the common-law learning was transplanted to the United States. As early as 1807, the Court recognized the existence of the motion in United States v. Cantril, 4 Cranch 167 (1807). And, in 1820, Chief Justice Marshall stated for the Court that “judgment can be arrested only for errors apparent on the record . . . .” United States v. Klintock, 5 Wheat. 144, 149 (1820). See also Carter v. Bennett, 16 How. 354 (1854); Bon…
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