Argument before the United States Circuit Court [electronic resource] / by Isaac W. Hayne, Esq., on the motion to discharge the crew of the Echo, delivered in Columbia, S.C., December, 1858 ; reported by Douglass A. Levien.

Argument before the United States Circuit Court [electronic resource] / by Isaac W. Hayne, Esq., on the motion to discharge the crew of the Echo, delivered in Columbia, S.C., December, 1858 ; reported by Douglass A. Levien.

Albany, N.Y. : Weed, Parsons, 1859.

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"The crew of the brig Putnam, (Echo,) charged under the Act of Congress of May 15th, 1820, with piracy on the high seas, were brought before the United States Circuit Court, at Columbia, South Carolina, on a writ of habeas corpus, and a motion made for their discharge, the Grand Jury of Richland district having refused to find a true bill against them."--P. [3]
"On habeas corpus. Motion of R.T. Bates and others to be discharged from custody."--Federal cases, v. 2, p. 1016.
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