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Garnett v. United States U.S. 256 (1871)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0370 and id is 1 raw text is: GARNETT V. UNITED STATES. Statement of the case. NOTE.-The four cases which now immediately follow, to wit, Garvett v. United States, Me Veigh v. Same, HMiller v. Same, and Tyler v. Defrees, arose under two certain acts of Con- gress passed in 1861 and 1862, during the late rebellion, and popularly known as the Confiscation Acts. Alohg with one or two others they were argued at the last term; but after being taken into advisement, were at the close of it ordered to be re-argued at this. They were now fully argued very much together. In the first of them nothing relating to confiscation was reached; the case going off on a point of jurisdiction. Ii the judgment in none of them did the Chief Justice or Mr. Justice Nelson participate; both being absent from the court from the causes mentioned in the memoranda of the Term. GARNETT V. UNITED STATES. 'Where a case has been tried in the District Court of the District of Colum- bia, the judgment or decree rendered therein must be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the District, before the case can be brought before this court for examination. ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; the case being this: By an act passed in 1801,* there was organized for the Dis- trict the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, vested with all the powers of the Circuit Courts of the United States. It had cognizdnce of all crimes and offences committed within said District, and of all cases in law and equity, &c. By act of 1802,t it was provided that the chief judge of the District of Columbia should hold a District Court in and for the said District, which court shall have and exercise within said District the same powers and jurisdiction which are by law vested in the District Courts of the United States. On the 3d March, 1863,+ by act of that'date the courts of the District were reorganized. The first section of that organic act established a court, [Sup. Ct. * 2 Stat. at Large, 105. t 2 1b. 166. 1 2 Ib. 762.

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