State v. Hernandez

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Kins, J.

The accused was convicted of counterfeiting silver coin current in the State, and, after sentence, appealed. Nd bills of exception were taken upon the trial of the cause. The accused relies for a reversal of the judgment of the lower court on a number of alleged errors, assigned as apparent on the face of the record. They are the following: 1st. That there is no statute declaring it an offence to counterfeit coin within this State, and the offence as charged in the indictment is not in the words of any statute relating to the counterfeiting…