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- Title: Ex Parte Carll, Petitioner
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 15, 1883
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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A. J. Dittenhoefer, for petitioner. This application is denied. We have had occasion to say at the present term, in Ex parte Curtis, ante, 381, that 'we have no general power to review the judgments of the inferior courts of the United States in criminal cases, by the use of the writ of habeas corpus or otherwise. Our jurisdiction is limited to the single question of the power of the court to commit the prisoner for the act of which he has been convicted.' This rule is well settled. Ex parte Lange, 18 Wall. 163; Ex parte Rowland, 104 U. S. 604. The grounds of the present application, as stated in the petition, are, that the circuit court had no jurisdiction to try the prisoner for the offense of which he has been convicted and to commit him to prison therefor, because (1) the instruments described in the indictment and charged to have been forged show on their face that they are not bonds or obligations of the United States, and, even if genuine, possessed no validity; and (2) it was conceded on the trial that the instruments set forth in the indictment were genuine registered bonds, and that the forgery complained of consisted in erasing the name of the original payee and substituting that of the prisoner.