People v. Sweetman
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the county of Lewis. The prisoner had been indicted for peijury, alleged to have been committed in the County Court of Lewis county on the naturalization of James Catillay.
1Opinion of the CourtBacon, J.
The only questions which arise on this certiorari are, first, whether the County Court of Lewis county had power to naturalize the alien on whose applica*371cation the perjury was alleged to have been committed; second, whether the courts of this state have jurisdiction to punish for a violation of what is claimed to be a law of the United States; or, in other words, whether the offence charged was not an offence against the laws of the United States and not the laws of New-York.
On the first point, I entertain no doubt that the County Court has jurisdiction to naturalize aliens. The act of…
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