Case Name: UNITED STATES v. HAMILTON
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1883-10-15
Citations: 109 U.S. 63
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. HAMILTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 63–63

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES v. HAMILTON.
ON CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION IN OPINION BETWEEN THE JUDGES OF THE CIKOUIT COURT OF ' THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE.
Submitted October Term, 1882.
Decided October 15th, 1883.
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.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Bradley
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.