State v. Bowman
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an indictment upon the 31st section of the statute for the punishment of high crimes and misdemeanors, which relates to counterfeiting.
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This was an indictment upon the 31st section of the statute for the punishment of high crimes and misdemeanors, which relates to counterfeiting. The indictment contained four counts, all of which were abandoned except the following: “ And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present, that the said Zadock Bowman and Baxter Bowman, on the twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, with force and arms, at Coventry, in the county of Orleans aforesaid, felo-niously and unlawfully, did have in their possession a certain…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mattocks, J.
— This was an indictment with four counts, to which the respondents demur. The three first counts are abandoned, and the question now is, whether the fourth is sufficient. There are two principal questions upon this count:
1st, Is the respondents’ having a “ crucible” in their possession, for the purpose of counterfeiting silver money, an of-fence under the statute ? This is to the merits.
2d, Whether the indictment contains any sufficient allegation that the coins intended to be counterfeited were such as “ were made current by the laws of…
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