Smith v. People

By the Court, Douglass, J.

Smith, the plaintiff in error, was tried at the last October term of the Washtenaw Circuit Court, on an indictment which had been found against him, for having in his possession counterfeit hills of a banking company, known as the Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance Company. On the trial, one Allen Comstock, who had been indicted and arrested at the same time with the prisoner, for passing counterfeit bills of the kind described in the indictment in this cause, and who had, on pleading guilty, been sentenced to sixty days imprisonment in the Washtenaw county jail,…