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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justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters, is repealed, so far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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