Watts v. Territory of Washington — 91 U.S. 580

Majority — Waite J.

p. 580

Watts v. Territory of Washington.

Syllabus

This court can only review the final ¡judgments of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington in criminal cases, when the Constitution or a statute or treaty of the United States is drawn in question.

Error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington;

'Mr. Nathaniel Wilson for the plaintiff in error. Mr. Assistant Attorney-General Edwin B. Smith, contra.

delivered the opinion of the court.-

This court pan only review the final judgments of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington in criminal cases, when the Constitution or a statute or treaty of the United States is drawn in question. Rev. Stat., sect. 702.

This is a criminal- case; but the record does not present for our consideration any question of which we can take jurisdic- , tion. It nowhere appears that the Constitution or any statute \or treaty of the United States is in any manner drawn in question. Writ dismissed for want of jurisdiction.