Treason
Summary
A betrayal, treachery, or breach of allegiance. Against the United States, it consists only in “levying war against the nation, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort,” according to the United States Constitution, article 3, section 3. In English law, high treason was treason against the sovereign, “as distinguished from petit or petty treason which might formerly be committed against a subject.” Illinois law indicated that “no justice of the peace shall admit to bail any person or persons charged with treason.”
Links
papers
- Introduction to State of Illinois v. JS and H. Smith for Treason
- Introduction to State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A, State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus, State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus, and State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–B
- Introduction to State of Missouri v. Pratt et al. for Murder
- Letter to Jesse B. Thomas, 26 June 1844–A
- Letter to Orville Browning, 27 June 1844
- Warrant, 24 June 1844–A [ State of Illinois v. JS and H. Smith for Treason ]