State v. Benham
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN EREOK. This was an information, charging the prisoner, Amos Ben-ham, with having in his possession, on the 26th of December, 1828, a forged bank note or bill of the Troy Bank, with intention to alter and pass the same, and with intention to defraud the said Bank of Troy, and also him or them to whom he should utter or pass the same, knowing it to be forged.
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IN EREOK. This was an information, charging the prisoner, Amos Ben-ham, with having in his possession, on the 26th of December, 1828, a forged bank note or bill of the Troy Bank, with intention to alter and pass the same, and with intention to defraud the said Bank of Troy, and also him or them to whom he should utter or pass the same, knowing it to be forged. To this.information the prisoner pleaded a former information filed against him, at the same term, for having in his possession a bank note of the Mechanics' Bank in the city of New-York, with intent to utter and pass the same, and with…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
The statute, upon which this information is founded, enacts : “ That if any person shall have in possession, or receive from any other person, any forged or counterfeited promissory note or bill, for the payment of money, with intention to utter or pass the same, or to permit, cause or procure the same to be uttered or passed, with intention to defraud any person, or body politic or corporate, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited; every such person, so offending, being thereof duly convicted, shall suffer imprisonment,” &c. Stat. 157. tit. 22. s. 35. The prisoner had in his…
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