Dashing v. State

The appellant was indicted in the court below for the violation of a law of this State by fraudulently uttering and publishing as true “a piece of false, forged and counterfeit coin, resembling and apparently intended to resemble and pass for silver coin of the United States of America, called a dollar, which lawful coin was then and there current in the said State of Indiana.”

*358Upon trial he was convicted, and, over a motion in arrest, judgment was rendered against him.

The only question made here is, whether a conviction can be had in such case in a State court.

It has been held in this State…