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John Norris, Plaintiff, v. Edwin B. Crocker and Elisha Eghert U.S. 429 (1852)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0247 and id is 1 raw text is: DECEMBER TERM, 1851. 429 Norris v. Crocker et al. cord from the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama, and was'argued by counsel On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said Supreme Court in this cause be, and the same is hereby, reversed, with costs, and that this cause be, and the same is hereby, remanded to the 'aid Supreme Court to be proceeded with in conformity.to the opinion of this court, and as to law and justice may appertain. Order in No. 131. This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the re- cord from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Georgia, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said Circuit Court in this cause be, and the same is hereby, reversed, with costs, and that this cause be, and the same is hereby, remanded to the said Circuit Court, with directions to award a venirefacias de novo, and to proceed therewith, in conformity to the opinion of this court. TonN NoRRIs, PLAINTIFF, V. EDWIN B. CROCKER AND ELISRA EGBEIT. The fourth section of the act of Congress, approved on the 12th day of February, 1793, (1 Stat. at Large, 302,) entitled An act respecting fugitives escaping from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters, is repealed, so far as relates to the penalty, by the act of Congress approved September 18th, 1850, (9 Stat. at Large, 462,) entitled An act to amend, and supplementary to, the ab6ve actu Therefore, where an action for the recovery of the penalty prescribed in the act of 1793 was pending at the time of the repeal, sucb repeal is a bar to the action. Tins case came up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana, upon a certificate of division in opi- nion between the judges thereof. The following certificate explains the question: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, District of Indiana. At a Circuit Court of the United States, begun and holden at Indianapolis, for the District of Indiana, on Monday, the nine- teenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and continued from day to day until Friday, the thir- tieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

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