Cunningham v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Hinds county. Hon. Geo. F. BkoavN, Judge. The defendant, J. F. Cunningham, was indicted by the grand jury, at the September term, 1872, of the circuit court of Hinds county, for an attempt to forge Auditors warrants on the State treasury, and at the same term of the court the defendant was arraigned and filed a demurrer to the indictment, and sets up the following causes of demurrer, to-wit: 1. Said indictment shows no offense under the statute;…
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Error to the circuit court of Hinds county. Hon. Geo. F. BkoavN, Judge. The defendant, J. F. Cunningham, was indicted by the grand jury, at the September term, 1872, of the circuit court of Hinds county, for an attempt to forge Auditors warrants on the State treasury, and at the same term of the court the defendant was arraigned and filed a demurrer to the indictment, and sets up the following causes of demurrer, to-wit: 1. Said indictment shows no offense under the statute; does not aver that defendant received said box with knowledge or information of its contents, or that he received the…
1Opinion of the CourtPeyton, C. J.
J. F. Cunningham was convicted, in the circuit court holden for the first district of Hinds county, of an attempt to commit the crime of forgery, on an indictment charging that he, the said J. F. Cunningham, on the 10th day of August, 1872, with force and arms, in the first district of Hinds county, designing and endeavoring to commit the crime of forgery, feloniously did then and there receive and take possession of a certain box, containing a large number of fraudulently printed papers, purporting to be blank warrants of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Mississippi, and a…
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