
    JOHN T. PATTERSON v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [No opinion in C. Cls.;
    150 U. S. R., 65.]
    
      On the defendant's Appeal.
    
    Claimant was a commissioner of the United States Circuit Court for the western district of North Carolina, and recovered judgment in the court helow "for hearing and deciding on criminal charges.”
    The decision, of the court below is reversed on the ground that the investigation in question was not properly a criminal charge, there having been no written formal complaint.
   Mr. Justice Brewer,

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, October 30, 1893.  