Forsyth v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by a writ of error, from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida. The facts in the case are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is a motion by the Attorney-General, on behalf of the United States, to dismiss the writ of error for want of jurisdiction, it having been taken out in a criminal case 10 bring up a judgment on an indictment for cutting timber upon government lands.
The indictment was returned by the grand jury, at the October term, 1845, of the Superior Court of the District of West Florida, in the late Territory of Florida, in the County of Escambia, and was founded upon the act of Congress passed March 2, 1831, entitled- “An act-to provide for the punishment of offences committed in cutting,…
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