State v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Connecticut
MOTION for a new trial. This was an information brought upon the statute, forforge-ry. it was alleged, that the prisoner, to prevent equity and justice, wilfully and feloniously, made, forged and published a certain false and forged order or writing, pin porting to he . ... , a genuine order or writing ot one Elms Molchiass, upon Jared Doolittle and Jason Dickennan, by the name of Doolittle and Dickennan, knowing the same to be false and forged, The information contained two…
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MOTION for a new trial. This was an information brought upon the statute, forforge-ry. it was alleged, that the prisoner, to prevent equity and justice, wilfully and feloniously, made, forged and published a certain false and forged order or writing, pin porting to he . ... , a genuine order or writing ot one Elms Molchiass, upon Jared Doolittle and Jason Dickennan, by the name of Doolittle and Dickennan, knowing the same to be false and forged, The information contained two counts ; in one of which die prisoner was charged with having made and forged the order ; in the other, with having…
1Opinion of the CourtSwift, J.
This was an information for forgery, and uttering a false order, as true, knowing it to be false.
The court charged the jury, that if they found the prisoner made and passed the order, it wafe forgery ; though Uolchiiss, in whose name the order was drawn, had no authority to make such order. For this direction of the court, a new trial is moved for.
It is contended, that the words in the statute, on which this prosecution is founded, vis. “ or other writing to prevent equity and justice,” are so uncertain, that they ought to be rejected ; and as an order is not comprehended under the writings…
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