The Speeches at full length of Mr. Van Ness : Mr. Caines, the Attorney-general [Ambrose Spencer], Mr. Harrison, and General Hamilton, in the great cause of the people, against Harry Croswell, on an indictment for a libel on Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States
"This was an issue of traverse upon an indictment, found at the general sessions of the peace for the county of Columbia [N.Y.] ... and removed into the Supreme Court by Certiorari, and tried before his honor the Chief Justice, at the Circuit in Columbia ..." [p. [3].
Concerns request for a new trial.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 600 as assigned by Yeates.
Hand-written eontents on flyleaf.
Bound with Trial of Thomas O. Selfridge...for killing Charles Austin,,,Boston: Russell and Cutler, 1807? - The trial of the boot & shoemakers of Philadelphia...Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806 - A faithfull report of the trial of the cause of Philip I. Arcularius...New York: Bernard Dornin, 1807.-.A correct statement of the whole preliminary controversy between Tho. O. Selfridge and Benj. Austin...Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, 1807.
from January term 1799, to January term 1803, both inclusive: together with cases determined in the Court for the Correction of Errors, during that period, by William Johnson.
Book numbers 392, 393, and 394 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Vol. 1. From January term, 1799, to July term, 1800 -- Vol. 2. From October term, 1800, to October term, 1801 -- Vol. 3 From January term, 1802, to January term, 1803, inclusive ; with an appendix [People v. Croswell. Feb. 13, 1804]
Summary
"Together with cases determined in the Court for the correction of errors, during that period."--T.p.
