Chapter 68. To withdraw from the Supreme Court jurisdiction of criminal cases not capital and confer the same on the circuit courts of appeals
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CHAP. 68.— An Act To withdraw from the Supreme Court jurisdiction of criminal cases not capital and confer the same on the circuit courts of appeals. January 20, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That so much of section five of United States courts. Appeals in criminal cases not capital withdrawn from Supreme Court to circuit courts of appeals. Vol. 26, p. 827.the Act entitled “An Act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety one, as reads “in cases of conviction of a capital or otherwise infamous crime,” be amended by striking out the words “or otherwise infamous,” so that the same will read “in cases of conviction of a capital crime;” and that appeals or writs of error may be taken from the district courts or circuit courts to the proper circuit court of appeals in cases of conviction of an infamous crime not capital: *Proviso.* Pending cases not affected.*Provided,* That no case now pending in the Supreme Court or in which an appeal or writ of error shall have been taken or sued out before the passage of this Act shall be hereby affected, but in all such cases the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court shall remain, and said Supreme Court shall proceed therein as if this Act had not been passed.
Approved, January 20, 1897.