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1 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 411

People v. Mount

New York Court of Common Pleas

Decided June 15, 1823

New York Court of Common Pleas · decided 1823-06-15

Riot. The facts appeared to be, that they were young boys from fourteen to fifteen years of age, and were apprentices, living near the'corner of Broad and Garden-Streets, It also appeared they were in the habit of frequenting the house of Thomas M’Cready, the prosecutor, almost every evening, in company with other apprentices and boys, and insulting him by saucy and impertinent language; calling him an old tory, and threatening him with force and yi°* lence ; bursting open…

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¶1The Court replied that it was the duty of the defendants to be present and at the bar of the Court; and in all criminal proceeding were always supposed to be; and no trial could take place without such presence, but by consent. If, therefore, the counsel for the defendants objected to calling them to the bar, for the purpose of proving them the same persons concerned in the riot the Court would be obliged to forfeit their recognizance, and so bring them up, and were proceeding to do it, when the counsel for the defendants consented they might be called from among the audience, and identified.

¶2They were called by the crier, and the identity of Mount, Wheeler, Brown, and Weeks, fully made 'out.

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