United States v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was an appeal from a judgment rendered by the Court of Claims against the United States in favor of Kicbard M. Jones, for services rendered by him as a commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western .District of North Carolina.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was an appeal from a judgment rendered by the Court of Claims against the United States in favor of Kicbard M. Jones, for services rendered by him as a commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western .District of North Carolina. The material facts of the case, as found by the court upon. the evidence, were, that the claimant had been a commissioner of the said court from 1883 to the bringing of the action; that from December 3, 1885, to June 30, 1886, as such commissioner, he issued warrants in six cases in which issue was joined…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Lamajee;
after making the foregoing statement of facts,' delivered the opinion of the court.. A brief reference to the powers and duties of a .commissioner, as an examining and committing magistrate, will be sufficient. to dispose of the only question presented by this appeal. Section 1014 of the Revised Statutes óf the Unitéd States pro-vidés that, “ for any crime,or offence against the United States, the offender may, by . . . any commissioner of the Circuit Court to take bail, . . ‘. be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the…
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