Hill v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Elzey B. Hill, alias Edward G. Howe. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
EVAN A. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error was convicted on two counts of an indictment which charge or attempt to charge him (a) with publishing, uttering, and passing a falsely altered and spurious Federal Reserve bank note with guilty knowledge, and (b) with having in his possession a falsely altered and spurious bank note.
[ 1 ] The latter count is challenged because no violation of any statute-of the United States is disclosed. We think the exception well taken.
Nowhere in this count is it alleged that plaintiff in error knew that the bank note in his possession was altered or…
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