Commonwealth v. Houghton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The defendant was indicted for “ that at, &c., on, &c., he had in his custody and possession more than ten, viz., twenty-five, false, forged, and counterfeit bank bills or promissory notes, payable to the bearer thereof, purporting to be twenty-five bank bills or promissory notes, signed in behalf of the Union Bank, for the sum of five dollars each, the said Union Bank being a corporation by law licensed and authorized as a bank within this .commonwealth ; and that he, the…
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The defendant was indicted for “ that at, &c., on, &c., he had in his custody and possession more than ten, viz., twenty-five, false, forged, and counterfeit bank bills or promissory notes, payable to the bearer thereof, purporting to be twenty-five bank bills or promissory notes, signed in behalf of the Union Bank, for the sum of five dollars each, the said Union Bank being a corporation by law licensed and authorized as a bank within this .commonwealth ; and that he, the said Houghton, having knowledge that the aforesaid bills or notes, and each and every one of them, were false, forged,…
1Opinion of the Court
The cause was continued for advisement, and at the following April term, the prisoner being brought into Court, and set to the bar, his honor, Judge Sedgwick, by whom the Court was'holden, addressed him as follows: —
Tilley Houghton,
Your motion in arrest of judgment has been deliberately considered by all the judges, and their unanimous opinion is that it must prevail.
*96* There are many objections made to the indictment in this case, all of which, except, the first, might be got over, as the Court has unanimously determined in the case of the writ of "error brought by Murray Brown to reverse a…
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- State v. BonneySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1852
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