# United States v. Brown

> U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · November 15, 1835 · 24 F. Cas. 1247

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8315942

## Case

- **Full name:** United States v. John Brown, a Mulatto
- **Court:** U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
- **Decided:** November 15, 1835
- **Citations:** 24 F. Cas. 1247; 4 D.C. 607; 4 Cranch 607
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Thruston
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

The Court
however,
(Thruston, J., dissenting,)
sustained the objection and rejected the witness; being of opinion that the execution of the sentence, without any provision by statute to that effect, did not restore his competency.
The prisoner was acquitted.
*608 The witness, Sandy Spriggs, was afterwards convicted of the same robbery, and sentenced to the penitentiary for four years only; he having probably prevented the other robbers from killing Milburne.
(See also the Maryland Act of 1793, c. 57, § 15, by which the service and labor, imposed as a punishment under that act, have the effect of a pardon ; from which special enactment it is to be inferred that without it, the punishment would not operate as a pardon.)

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