Barnett v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from City Court of MOI1^gomery- Tried before Hon. James Q. Smith. Tbe appellants, Thomas M. Barnett, Nicholas D. Barnett and B. H. Micou, were, indicted, under section 3643 of the Revised Code, at the fall term, 1873, of the circuit court of Elmore, for emitting change bills to circulate as money, and upon affidavit as to local prejudice, the trial was transferred to Montgomery county. Tbe indictment contained three counts.
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Appeal from City Court of MOI1^gomery- Tried before Hon. James Q. Smith. Tbe appellants, Thomas M. Barnett, Nicholas D. Barnett and B. H. Micou, were, indicted, under section 3643 of the Revised Code, at the fall term, 1873, of the circuit court of Elmore, for emitting change bills to circulate as money, and upon affidavit as to local prejudice, the trial was transferred to Montgomery county. Tbe indictment contained three counts. The first count charged that within twelve months before tbe finding of the indictment the defendants, (with others to the grand jury unknown), “being members or…
1Opinion of the Court
BEICKELL, .0. J.
The indictment contains three counts, - the first charging that the defendants, being members or partners of a private corporation, caused or procured to be made, emitted, signed or.countersigned, without authority of law, a paper to answer the purpose of money. The second charges, that the defendants were associated together for the sale of merchandize, and caused or procured the paper to be made, emitted, &c. The third count charges the defendants with circulating paper, issued without authority of law, to answer the purposes of money. To the first and second counts a…
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