Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the following opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error in this case suggests that there is diminution in the record, in omitting the charge to the jury which was delivered at the trial by the Circuit Court, and moves for a certiorari, that it may be set out at length, and appended to the record.
So much of the charge of the court as was excepted to at the trial, is inserted in the record as it now stands; and by...
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