Hill v. United States

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

On a former writ of error this court reversed a conviction of plaintiff in error under counts 4 and 5 of an indictment (Hill, etc., v. U. S., 275 Fed. 187); count 4 there involved being the same count 4 under which plaintiff in error, here called defendant, was again convicted in 1921. That conviction is here for review.

The count charges that defendant did feloniously, etc., publish, utter, and pass as true a spurious circulating bank note. The first objection raised is that the count does not sufficiently set out nor describe the $1 note said to have been altered. We are…