Mr. Justice SWAYNE, stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.
The facts disclosed in the record, so far as it is necessary to state them, are as follows:
During the late civil war the rebel government established a court known as the "District Court of the Confederate States of America for the Northern District of Alabama." In that court the plaintiff in error was indicted for treason against the Confederate States. The indictment alleged that...
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