Fanny Tarlton v. Cartwright Tippett. Jury Instructions
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If the Jury should believe from the evidence that Mr. Scott at the time of his leaving the District of Columbia for Carraccas meant permanantly to reside there with his family & did reside there for upwards of 12 months carrying & retaining with him the petitioner until his return & that his leaving there[?] was owing to compulsion & not his will,[?] then the petitioner is entitled to a verdict of freedom
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If the Jury find from the evidence that said Scott proceeded to Carraccas in a public [illegible] or a secret mission for the government, and or a states salary: that he also had some ulterior & contingient views of remaining longer at Carraccas than was necessary for the purposes of his mission, and of engaging there in business: but that when he departed from the District for Carraccas the duration of his abode there, and the business he shd. engage in was were undetermined & uncertain, and dependent upon circumstances: and that at the time of his being compelled to leave Carraccas he had not actually settled himself as a permanent resident there; but still remained there undecided as to the duration of his residence, or the footing on which he should establish himself: then the bringing of the petitioner back from Carraccas to Maryland & from
Maryland to this District, was not an importation against the Act of Assembly.
Verdict Not Guilty