United States v. Hamilton
Supreme Court of the United States
United States v. Hamilton, 109 U.S. 63 (1883)
3 S. Ct. 9; 27 L. Ed. 857; 1883 U.S. LEXIS 929
United States v. Hamilton
Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court.
The certificate of division in this case was made on a division in opinion between the judges on a motion to quash the indictment. As a motion to quash is always addressed to the discretion of the court, a decision upon it is hot error, and cannot be reviewed oh a writ of error. In the case of United States v. Rosenburgh, 7 Wall. 580, we decided the precise point, that this court cannot take cognizance of a division of opinion between the judges of a circuit court upon a motion to quash an indictment. This decision was re-affirmed in United States v. Avery, 13 Wall. 251, and in United States v. Canda, decided at October term 1881.
The ease, not being properly before us, is dismissed.
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- Practise This court will not take cognizance of a division of opinion between the- judges of a circuit court on a mStion. to quash an indictment.