Case No. 15,761.

UNITED STATES v. MEYER.

Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania.

Oct., 1799.

FEDERAL JURISDICTION—COMMON LAW OFFENCES.

[This was an indictment for libel, and is cited in Wharton's Precedents of Indictments, § 905, note, as an instance of the exercise by the federal courts of jurisdiction over offences of a purely common law origin. The case is no-were reported; opinion not now accessible.]

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