
    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, § 903. 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.]
     