Commonwealth v. Snell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The defendant was tried at the last June term at Augusta, in Kennebeck county, upon an indictment for forging a promissory note, purporting to be subscribed by one Raymond Smith; and for uttering and passing the same note as good to one Clement Bunker. knowing it to be forged. The jury acquitted him of the offence of forging the note; but they found him guilty of passing it, as charged in the indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
Fne defendant moved for a new trial on the evidence as it shouh. be reported by the chief justice, before whom the trial was had.
*71The report was, that upon the trial it was proved that the defendant passed the note described in the indictment to Clement Bunker as a good note made by Raymond Smith; that Bunker showed the note to Smith, who examined it, took a copy of it, and declared it to be a forgery; that Bunker took out a warrant against the defendant to apprehend him for passing the said note as good, knowing it to be forged; that the defendant absconded; that Thaddeus Snell. a brother of…
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