U.S. EX. REL. TURNER v. WILLIAMS

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal was taken directly to this court on the ground that the case involved the construction or application of the Constitution of the United States, and that the constitutionality of a law of the United States was drawn in question; and although it may be, as argued by the Government, that the principles which must control...