Clark v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
APPEAL FROM ROCKCASTLE CIRCUIT. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court. Rep. The indictment is for having counterfeit bank notes in possession, purporting to be on various banks of Kentucky, with the intention to pass them.
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APPEAL FROM ROCKCASTLE CIRCUIT. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court. Rep. The indictment is for having counterfeit bank notes in possession, purporting to be on various banks of Kentucky, with the intention to pass them. None of the witnesses proved that any money found in possession of defendant was counterfeit, except by the confessions of defendant; and the proof is that the notes seen purported to be Virginia bank notes. — - Whether there be any incorporated banks in Virginia this court does not judicially know. 1. The indictment specially charges that defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Stites
delivered tlie opinion of the Court.
James Clark was indicted under the Revised Statutes — Sec. 2, Art. 10, Chap. 28, title Crimes and Punishments — “for having unlawfully in his possession, on 4 the 1st day of December, 1852, twenty counterfeit 1 bank notes of the Farmers Bank of Kentucky, each 1 of the denomination of twenty dollars; ten counter- ‘ feit bank notes on the Farmers Bank of Kentucky, 5 of the denomination of ten dollars; twenty one dollar bills on the Northern Bank of Kentucky; twen- ‘ ty two dollar bills on the Farmers Bank' of Ken- * tucky; twenty one dollar bills…
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