The People v. . D'Argencour
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant Louis D’Argencour from a judgment of March 7, 1884, of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department affirming a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the city and county of New York, April 11, 1883, Hon. Henry A. Gildersleeve presiding, convicting defendant of forgery in the second degree.
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Appeal by defendant Louis D’Argencour from a judgment of March 7, 1884, of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department affirming a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the city and county of New York, April 11, 1883, Hon. Henry A. Gildersleeve presiding, convicting defendant of forgery in the second degree. The offense was committed on September 28, 1882, before the Penal Code went into effect, and the indictment was found March 22, 1883. The conviction was under the first count contained in the indictment, which was in the following form : “ The Grand Jury of the…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The defendant was indicted and convicted for the crime of forgery in the second degree, on the first count contained in the indictment. .This charged that the defendant made, and engraved, and caused and procured to be made and engraved a plate in the form and similitude of a promissory note, issued by a bank at Havana, in the Island of Cuba for the payment of fifty centavos, said bank being a bank incorporated -under the laws of the kingdom of Spain, without the authority of said bank and in violation of the statutes of the state.
The counsel for the appellant insists that the court erred in…
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