Summary
In Watts v. Washington Territory, 1 Wn. Terr. 409, this court, in overruling a challenge to the grand jury proceedings, pointed out that there had been no claim by the defendant that any of the grand jurors were biased or prejudiced.
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OCTOBER TERM, 1875.
This court can only review the final judgments of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington in criminal cases, when the Constitution or a statute or treaty of the United States is drawn in question.
Mr. Nathaniel Wilson for the plaintiff in error. Mr. Assistant Attorney-General Edwin B. Smith, contra.
ERROR to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington.
This court can only review the final judgments of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington in criminal cases, when the Constitution or a statute or treaty of the United States is drawn in question. Rev. Stat., sect. 702.
This is a criminal case; but the record does not present for our consideration any question of which we can take jurisdiction. It nowhere appears that the Constitution or any statute or treaty of the United States is in any manner drawn in question.
Writ dismissed for want of jurisdiction.