Commonwealth v. Hill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an indictment for passing a counterfeit bank note to one Joseph Bradbury. A trial was had before Thatcher, J., October term, 1812, at Alfred, in this county; when the evidence was that Hill, at the time alleged in the indictment, delivered the note therein mentioned to a boy by the name of Aaron Smith, and desired him to go, and, if he could, to pass it'away, agreeing to give him one half if he should so pass it; and if he could not pass it, then the note was to be…
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This was an indictment for passing a counterfeit bank note to one Joseph Bradbury. A trial was had before Thatcher, J., October term, 1812, at Alfred, in this county; when the evidence was that Hill, at the time alleged in the indictment, delivered the note therein mentioned to a boy by the name of Aaron Smith, and desired him to go, and, if he could, to pass it'away, agreeing to give him one half if he should so pass it; and if he could not pass it, then the note was to be returned to Hill. Smith passed the note as true to the said Bradbury, in the purchase of a waistcoat pattern, for which…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court
took time in the vacation to consider the question, and being agreed that the evidence was sufficient, the defendant was sentenced by Thatcher, J., at the last term at Alfred, (a)
Com Dig., Abatement, E, 4. — 1 Lord Raym. 282. — Foster's Crown Law, disc. 3, c. 1. — 1 Hale's Hist. P. C. 514, 617.— Dalt. Just. c. 108.
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