State v. McKenzie
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Howard, J., presiding. Indictment, under R. S., c. 157, § 5. The verdict was guilty. The prisoner, by his counsel, after verdict and before sentence, moved for arrest of judgment, for various alleged insufficiencies of the indictment. The motion of the defendant was overruled by the presiding Judge, and he excepted.
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On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Howard, J., presiding. Indictment, under R. S., c. 157, § 5. The verdict was guilty. The prisoner, by his counsel, after verdict and before sentence, moved for arrest of judgment, for various alleged insufficiencies of the indictment. The motion of the defendant was overruled by the presiding Judge, and he excepted. The indictment charged the defendant with having in his “ custody and possession at the same time, ten similar false, forged and counterfeit bank bills,” &c. The defendant, among .other objections, excepted to the sufficiency of that allegation,…
1Opinion of the CourtTenney, J.
It was the design of the grand jury, to charge the defendant with an offence described in R, S., c. 157, § 5, which provides, “If any person shall have in his possession at one time, ten or more bank bills or notes, in the similitude of the bank bills or notes, payable to the bearer or to the order of any person, issued or purporting to have been issued by any bank or banking company, &c., with intent to utter and pass, &c., such bank bills or notes, as true or false, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeit, ho shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life, or any term…
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