delivered the opinion of the court. He stated the fаcts in the foregoing language, and сontinued:
Informations under the revenue laivs for the forfеiture of goods, seeking no judgment of finе or imprisonment against
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any person, are not strictly сriminal cases, in whiсh the decisions of the Circuit Court are final, unless a division of opinion is cеrtified ; but they are сivil actions, of which this court has jurisdiction in error, without regatd to the sum or valuе in dispute. Rev. Stat. § 699;
Pettigrew
v.
United States,
The verdict, thоugh expressed in bad English, clearly manifеsted the intention and finding of the jury upon the issue submitted to them, and the court rightly gave judgment upon it. Rev. Stat. § 954;
Parks
v.
Turner,
Judgment affirmed.