Lamar v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. . The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the District Court of the crime of falsely personating an officer of the United States, to wit, a member of the House of Representatives, are stated in the opinion. The court below had jurisdiction to construe the statute-. Its error, if any, in so doing is one over which the Circuit Court. of Appeals has exclusive appellate jurisdiction.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. . The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the District Court of the crime of falsely personating an officer of the United States, to wit, a member of the House of Representatives, are stated in the opinion. The court below had jurisdiction to construe the statute-. Its error, if any, in so doing is one over which the Circuit Court. of Appeals has exclusive appellate jurisdiction. The statute and not the Constitution was to be construed. No constitutional question is involved. The .alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted upon an indictment- charging him with having falsely pretended to be an officer of the Government of the United States, to wit, a member,of the-House of Representatives, that is to say, A. Mitchell Palmer, a member of Congress, with intent to defraud J. P; Morgan & Company and the United States Steel Corporation* The case is brought here directly'on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction because the indictment does not charge a crinie against the United States, and that the interpretation of the Constitution was involved in the decision…
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