United States v. Fleming

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The writ of error in this case challenges an item of $288.10 for which John D. Fleming, the defendant in error, recovered a judgment against the United States in the court below under the act of March 3, 1887 (24 Stat. 505, c. 359). Fleming was the district attorney for the United States for the district of Colorado from March 23, 1889, to March 23, 1893, during which time the defendant in a criminal case took an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Colorado to the circuit court of the Eighth judicial circuit. The judge of the circuit court was sitting at…