—it was held that this court was without jurisdiction, under the law as it then was, to review the final judgment of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia in a criminal case.

As the laws of the District of Columbia limited the jurisdiction of the Court by language which seemed appropriate only to civil cases, the Court was without jurisdiction in cases of crime

This case is an instance of the exercise of appellate jurisdiction by the Supreme Court in a criminal case; but the court later denied its right to this jurisdiction, declining to be bound by this precedent.

—as depending merely on the words limiting the jurisdiction, which arises exclusively out of the statute.

—nor does a writ of error lie to the circuit court of the United States, or of the district of Columbia in criminal cases-ibid. nor from the general court of the northwestern territory for the United States.

Questions which merely lurk in the record, neither brought to the attention of the court nor ruled upon, are not to be considered as having been so decided as to constitute precedents.

But a writ of error brought by a citizen from the decision of the nighest state court where the citizan was therein sued by the state, is not a suit against a state within the section.(g) 6 Wh. 264. 387. 1 Wh. 377.

And when Congress has prescribed a rule to regulate it, the court is not at liberty to depart therefrom

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