United States v. Mills
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the United States from an order quashing a writ of certiorari. The Court in its opinion stated the ease as follows: This is an appeal by the United States from an order of the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia quashing a writ of certiorari.
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Hearing on an appeal by the United States from an order quashing a writ of certiorari. The Court in its opinion stated the ease as follows: This is an appeal by the United States from an order of the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia quashing a writ of certiorari. The petition for the writ, which was filed on October 5, 1897, recites that one Beckett, on September 3, 1897, in the Police Court of the District of Columbia, was convicted of the crime of larceny, and was sentenced by that court to pay a fine of $15 and in default of the payment of such fine to be imprisoned in jail for…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.'Justice Morris
delivered the opinion of the Court:
There are five assignments of error made by the appellants ; but the questions sought to be raised may be reduced to two: 1st. Whether the respondent Mills is entitled by virtue of his appointment by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to perform the duties of United State» *503Commissioner and to exercise the authority vested by the several statutes of the United States in such commissioners; and, 2d. Whether the Police Court of the District of Columbia is one of the courts of the United States whose sentences are intended to be…
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