
    United States v. Negro Jack, a Slave.
    This Court has not jurisdiction of larceny by a slave.
    Indictment for theft. Plea to the jurisdiction, it beingi a case cognizable only by a justice of the peace, by the Act of Assembly of Maryland.
   The Court

decided that they had not jurisdiction, and ordered the slave to be delivered to a constable to be carried before a justice of the peace.  