Cartier

The plaintiff in error- was convicted by a jury in the court of a commissioner and ex officio justice of the peace, in the district of Alaska, for a misdemeanor, and judgment was thereupon given in said court that he be imprisoned for three months in the federal jail at Council City, Alaska, and that he pay the costs of the action taxed at $410, and further imprisoned until such costs be paid, not exceeding 200 days. On the same day the plaintiff in error duly served and filed in the commissioner’s court a notice of appeal from such judgment to the United States- District Court for the District of Alaska, Second Division, at Nome, and also filed his undertaking on appeal. The notice of appeal was entitled in the proper court and correctly stated the title of the action, and was addressed to the commissioner and the attorney for the prosecution, and, omitting the formal part, is in the following words: “You will please take notice that the defendant in the above-entitled action hereby appeals to the United States .District Court in and for the District of Alaska, Second Division, at Nome, Alaska, from the judgment herein made and entered in the said U. S. Commissioner’s Court on…