UNITED STATES v. HAMILTON

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. [MAJORITY — Mr. Justice Bradley] 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.