People v. Brigham

By the Court, Whipple, J.

The defendants were tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of the county of Macomb, upon an indictment, the third count of which charges that Jones “ did falsely and feloniously utter and publish, as true, with the intent to injure and defraud the President, Directors & Company of the Bank of Macomb county, &c., a certain false and counterfeit order, for money,” &c. The fourth count contains the same charge, and only differs from the third, in describing the instrument as a draft. In each of the counts, Brigham is charged as an accessory. The bill of exceptions…