¶1adjudged the plea to be bad, it not being a discharge by due course of law. The aider-men of Alexandria not having jurisdiction to discharge a prisoner committed in execution under a process from the Circuit Court of the United States. See Act of Congress of the 28th of May, 1796. [1 Stat. at Large, 482.]
2 D.C. 12
Knox & Crawford v. Summers & Thomas
Decided November 15, 1810
This was an action of debt upon a prison-bounds bond given to D. M. Randolph, marshal of the district of Virginia, upon a capias ad satisfaciendum issued from the Circuit Court of the United States,-for the district of Virginia. The marshal committed him to the custody of C. Turner, town-sergeant of Alexandria, on the 19th of April, 1800.
Decided 1810-11-15