United States v. Jolly
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Tennessee
Indictments for Forgery, and for abstracting and embezzling a letter from the mails. On motion to quash.
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The indictment for forgery of the treasury warrant issued from the post-office department for transportation of the mails, and set out in hxc verba, avers that the defendant did, “with intent to defraud, falsely make and forge the name of ‘.Jas. J. Morgan’ on the back of a warrant,” etc., (describing it.) The warrant, as described, and as shown by its words, is one of the securities or obligations of the United States which section 5414 of the Revised Statutes of the United States was designed to protect against forgery, counterfeiting, or altering “with *109intent to defraud,” to use the…
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