People v. Wells
Michigan Supreme Court
Question reserved from Kent Circuit, where defendant was indicted for unlawful banking, and a special verdict found. The indictment was found at the December term, 1858. The first count is as follows: “The grand jurors of the people of the state of Michigan, good and lawful men duly empannelled and sworn, inquiring in and for the body of the county of Kent, upon their oaths present, that Revilo Wells, of the city of Grand Rapids, on the second day of December, in the year of…
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Question reserved from Kent Circuit, where defendant was indicted for unlawful banking, and a special verdict found. The indictment was found at the December term, 1858. The first count is as follows: “The grand jurors of the people of the state of Michigan, good and lawful men duly empannelled and sworn, inquiring in and for the body of the county of Kent, upon their oaths present, that Revilo Wells, of the city of Grand Rapids, on the second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty - eight, at the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent aforesaid,…
1Opinion of the Court
Ciiristianov J.:
The questions involved in this case arise upon the indictment and the special verdict.
The first and fourth counts charged, in substance, that the defendant, not being authorized • by law to do a regular banking business and to issue bank bills, “ did issue a certain draft in the similitude of a bank bill,” setting forth the draft.
The second count charges that defendant “ did issue a certain draft to be put in circulation as money.”
The third, that he “ did issue” the draft “ to be used as a currency or circulating medium.”
The fifth, that he issued ■ it, “ to be loaned or put in…
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