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- Title: Joseph Forsyth, Plaintiff in Error v. the United States
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1850
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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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 to 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, destroying, or removing liveoak and other timber or trees reserved for naval purposes.' The prisoner was arrested by a bench warrant issued upon the indictment on the 5th of November, 1845; but was taken out of the custody of the marshal by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus issued from the Circuit Court of the State of Florida, at the November term, 1845, of that court, and discharged from the arrest.