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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Secession Movement at the South . (search)
Federal Court.
--The trial of Captain John Lockhart, for alleged participation in the slave trade aboard the brig Storm King, on the African coast, in August, 1860, will be commenced on Monday morning, before Judge Halyburton, in the above Court.
The Trial of Capt. John Lockhart is expected to commence before the U. S. Court to-day.--His alleged offence is being engaged in the transportation of negroes from the coast of Guinea.
The Trial of Capt. John Lockhart, for misdemeanor, (in being a passenger on board a vessel engaged in the slave trade,) was commenced before Judge Halyburton yesterday, in the U. S. District Court.
His counsel objected to the first count in the indictment, which was decided by the Judge to be of no account, and the instrument was quashed.--A grand jury was ordered to convene at 5 o'clock to make another presentment, --Prisoner was offered bail, if he chose to avail himself of it.
The Trial of Capt. John Lockhart. for alleged complicity in the slave trade, was postponed yesterday, in the United States Court, until to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
United States vs. John Lockhart.
--The defendant in this case having been indicted for misdemeanor in being aboard the Storm King when that vessel was found near the coast of Africa with a number of negroes on board, the case was called yesterday for trial in the Federal Court, Judge Halyburton presiding.
A jury was empaneled and sundry witnesses sworn.
Dr. Bledsoe, Assistant Surgeon in the Navy, testified that he was on board the San Jacinto when the Storm King was captured.
Accidentally found a lot of papers in a trunk having no lock, placed near the gangway.--Saw the papers afterwards in the hands of Lieut. Broom, of the Marines, when leaving the cabin.
He had been sent to search for documents.
They were given to Capt. Dornin.
Witness identified papers in Court as a portion of those he saw. One Cranston, a sailor on board the Storm King, testified that he joined her in New York.
She left the 2d of May, 1860. Could not say what nation she belonged to. Signed articles.
The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Thrilling disaster. (search)
Trial of Capt. John Lockhart.
--The trial of this prisoner, before Judge Halyburton, for complicity in slave trading operations on the African coast, was resumed yesterday.
The prisoner's counsel made the following points in their argument to the jury: 1st.
That it was not proved that Lockhart was a citizen of the United States; 2d.
That the United States had not proved the nationality of the vessel; 3d.
That it has not been proved (as must be the case to insure conviction) that tLockhart was a citizen of the United States; 2d.
That the United States had not proved the nationality of the vessel; 3d.
That it has not been proved (as must be the case to insure conviction) that the prisoner was found serving on board, by guiding, steering or directing her movements; 4th.
That it has not been proved that the prisoner was anything more than a passenger on board the Storm King, away from home, anxious to reach it, and having no other mode of conveyance than the vessel; 5th.
That it has not been proved that the vessel was bound on a voyage, from one foreign country to another, which must be done to ensure a conviction.
After able argument for and against the prisoner
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Jury discharged. (search)
Jury discharged.
--Judge Halyburton, of the United States District Court, on yesterday, discharged the jury sworn to try Captain John Lockhart for misdemeanor, in being on a vessel having Africans on board.
The jury stood 11 for acquittal to 1 against.
Afterwards all of the jury signed a paper, requesting the Judge to admit the prisoner to bail.--The application will be made to-day.