MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The question whether the indictment charges any offense against the laws of the United States involves the validity of the act of January 30, 1897, as applied to the facts stated, and therefore the case is one properly before us under the act providing for writs of error in certain instances in criminal cases. Ch. 2564, 34 Stat. 1246; United States v. Keitel,
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