Case Name: Ezekiel Simpson, Plaintiff in error, v. The United States
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1850-01
Citations: 9 How. 578
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ezekiel Simpson, Plaintiff in error, v. The United States.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 50
Pages: 578–579

Head Matter:
Ezekiel Simpson, Plaintiff in error, v. The United States.
In error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice NELSON
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error, under the eighth section of the act of Congress passed February 22, 1847, to-bring up.the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida for review.
The indictment upon which the prisoner was convicted was founded upon-the act of Congress passed March 2, 1831, and the case; as appears from the record, agrees in all respects with the case of Forsyth v. The United States, just decided, and to the opinion in which we refer for our judgment in this case.
The motion on behalf of the Attorney-General to dismiss the writ of error for want of jurisdiction is denied, and the judgment .of the court below reversed, and the proceedings remitted to the court, with direction to quash the indictment and discharge the prisoner from his recognizance, or imprisonment, as the cáse may be.
Order.
This causé came on to be heard on the transcript of the rec ord from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said District Court in this cause be, and t.he same is hereby, reversed and annulled, for the want of jurisdiction in that court, arid that this cause be, and the same is hereby, remanded to the said District Court, with directions to quash the indictment and discharge the prisoner.