Twitchell v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny. This was an indictment for a conspiracy to cheat. Two points were made: first, that an indictable offence was not laid; and secondly, that it was not laid with sufficient certainty. The offence was a conspiracy to cheat by offering to sell ten forged notes, purporting to be $3 notes of the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati.
Read the full summary
In error from the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny. This was an indictment for a conspiracy to cheat. Two points were made: first, that an indictable offence was not laid; and secondly, that it was not laid with sufficient certainty. The offence was a conspiracy to cheat by offering to sell ten forged notes, purporting to be $3 notes of the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati. The averment alleged to be uncertain was that, in pursuance of their conspiracy, the defendants did “ offer to sell, pass, utter, and publish to,” &c.; and because the means whereby the conspiracy was to he effected were not…
1Opinion of the CourtCoulter, J.
The first section of the act of Assembly of 12th April, 1828, enacts that it shall be unlawful to issue or circulate, with intent to create or continue a circulating medium, any bill, note, check, or ticket, for a less sum than ten dollars. The third section, hoAvever, enacts that such notes, bills, or tickets shall not be void or of none effect, and provides that the holder, notwithstanding anything contained in that act, may bring suit thereon, and recover the amount thereof, witb intérest; and the fourth section makes the drawer, acceptor, and every person or body corporate who shall…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mifflin v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
3Cited by4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BrownSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
- State v. LoserSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
- Commonwealth v. StambaughSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
- Commonwealth v. MyersClarion County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1892