Distinct of Columbia v. Horning
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of the Police Court of the District of Columbia, quashing an information. ■ The Court in the opinion stated-the facts as follows: This cause was brought here on writ of error to the police court of the District of Columbia to review the action of the magistrate in quashing an information against George D. Horning, defendant in error.
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Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of the Police Court of the District of Columbia, quashing an information. ■ The Court in the opinion stated-the facts as follows: This cause was brought here on writ of error to the police court of the District of Columbia to review the action of the magistrate in quashing an information against George D. Horning, defendant in error. The information, the sufficiency of which is .challenged, charges, in substance, that defendant in error, Horning, hereafter referred to as defendant, maintained a place of business on Ninth and F streets, this city, on which…
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Van Orstuou
delivered the opinion of the Court:
Counsel for defendant objects to the jurisdiction of this court to re-view on writ of error the action of the court below. Jt appears that when the case came on for hearing, before defendant had beeen arraigned, counsel for the District of Columbia “stated in open court * * * in response to an interrogation by the court, that the acts and things which defendant was charged in said information with having committed, and which the District of Columbia claimed to constitute a violation of the Act of Congress of February 4, 1913, * * *…
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