United States v. Irwin
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio
[This was an indictment by the United States against James Irwin upon the charge of forgery.]
1Opinion of the Court
LEAVITT, District Judge.
This motion is urged on the ground that the instrument or paper alleged to have been forged, is not embraced, either expressly or by fair construction, in any act of congress, defining and punishing the crime of forgery. If this position is sustainable, it is quite clear this motion must prevail. This court has no common law jurisdiction of crimes, and therefore no power to adjudge any act criminal, *545not declared to be so, by statutory enactment.
This indictment contains four counts. The first charges the forgery of a military land warrant, averring it to be “a public…
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