In re Heath

STATEMENT BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER.

Thomas H. Heath was convicted of manslaughter at a special criminal term of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y. Upon appeal to the general term of that court the judgment was affirmed, whereupon he applied for a writ of error from this court.

The petition was originally presented to the chief justice, and, by order duly made, referred to the court in session for the consideration and determination of the question of jurisdiction arising thereon.

John Lyon, for petitioner.

Asst. Atty. Gen. Maury , for District of Columbia.

Mr. Chief Justice FULLER, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.