MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
It is insisted that the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a criminal court, had no jurisdiction; that the questions were not authorized under the Constitution; and that the act of Congress under which petitioner was indicted and tried is unconstitutional.
Sections 102, 103 and 104, and section 859, of the Revised Statutes, are as follows:
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