{
  "id": 236546,
  "name": "The United States vs. Moses Terrel and Daniel Newman",
  "name_abbreviation": "United States v. Terrel",
  "decision_date": "1840-04",
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  "first_page": "422",
  "last_page": "423",
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      "cite": "1 Ark. Terr. Rep. 422"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ark. Cir. Ct.",
    "id": 9036,
    "name": "Arkansas Circuit Court"
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    "id": 34,
    "name_long": "Arkansas",
    "name": "Ark."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
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    "parties": [
      "The United States vs. Moses Terrel and Daniel Newman."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Opinion oe the Court. \u2014\u25a0 This case stands on the same footing as the one against Moses Terrel, just determined, and the same reasons for arresting the judgment apply.\nThere is no law at present to punish the offence when occurring upon land; and it rests with congress to provide a remedy. Assault with intent to bill, if committed on the \u201c high seas\u201d or within any place within the admiralty jurisdiction, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, is undoubtedly punishable in the courts of the United States, by fine and imprisonment, and confinement to hard labor. That is the only law on the subject, and it has no application to this case. Gordon\u2019s Digest, 939.\nJudgment arrested, and defendants discharged.",
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    "head_matter": "The United States vs. Moses Terrel and Daniel Newman.\nAssault with intent to kill, or an assault and battery when committed in the Indian country, are not punishable by the courts of the United States.\nApril, 1840.\n\u2014 The defendants, described as white men, were indicted in the circuit court for an assault with intent to kill, committed on John Ballard, also a white man, in the Indian country west of Arkansas, on the 29th of November, 1839, and they plead not guilty ; and on trial before the Hon. Benjamin Johnson, district judge, holding the circuit court, the jury found them \u201c guilty of an assault and battery, but not with the intent to kill.\u201d\nThe defendants moved in arrest of judgment, on the ground that there was no law of the United States to punish an assault with intent to kill, or an assault and battery committed in the Indian country, and this was argued by F. W. Trapnall and John W. Cocke, in support of the motion, and by William C. Scott, district attorney, against it."
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