The next morning Mr. Hay, after counsel for the prosecution had given serious consideration to the opinion of the court, stated that he had neither argument nor evidence to offer to the jury. The jury then retired and after an absence of twenty-five minutes, reported to the court through their foreman, Colonel Carrington, the following verdict endorsed on the indictment: “We of the jury find that Aaron Burr is not proved to be guilty under the indictment by any evidence submitted to us. We therefore find him not guilty.” Colonel Burr and his counsel objected to entering this form of the verdict on the record. The court at length decided that the verdict should remain on the indictment as found by the jury, and that the record of the proceedings of the court should show simply a verdict of “not guilty.” The following day Burr was released from prison on bail. The trial was now begun on the indictment for high misdemeanor against him, for having set on foot a military expedition against the territory of a foreign prince, to-wit, the Province of Mexico, which was within the empire of the King of Spain, who was at peace with the United States. The trial lasted until the latter part of October when Burr was acquitted. THE END Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. Most of the illustrations are of handwritten documents, and some are difficult to read. Their lighting and contrast in this eBook have been adjusted in an attempt to improve readability. The most readable versions of these documents may be found in the HTML version of this eBook at Project Gutenberg. List of Illustrations: “Affidavit of Burr for subœena” originally was printed as “Affidavit at Burr for subpoena”; changed here. Page 58: Transcriber corrected several lines of transposed text. Page 78: “MacRae” originally was printed as “McRae” but was changed here to match the predominant spelling of the name elsewhere in this eBook. End of Project Gutenberg's The Trial of Aaron Burr, by Joseph P. Brady