State v. Williams
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. The petition alleges that after the passage of an Act of the Legislature of the said State of Texas, entitled “An Act to suppress illegal banking,” approved March 20th, 1848, to wit: on the first day of April, A. D., 1852, in the county of Galveston, in said State, said defendants and the persons aforesaid unknown were, then and there, and previously thereto, had been associated together, being, the said Samuel M. Williams, President and a Director,…
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Appeal from Galveston. The petition alleges that after the passage of an Act of the Legislature of the said State of Texas, entitled “An Act to suppress illegal banking,” approved March 20th, 1848, to wit: on the first day of April, A. D., 1852, in the county of Galveston, in said State, said defendants and the persons aforesaid unknown were, then and there, and previously thereto, had been associated together, being, the said Samuel M. Williams, President and a Director, the said Henry Jenkins, Cashier, and the other defendants, the other Birectors of the said illegal hank, called “ the…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
The petition filed by the Attorney General in this case charges, “ That on the first day of April and from “ thence continually, afterwards, for the space of one month,. “the said defendants, and persons unknown, in the ehar- “ acter of President, Directors and Cashier, as aforesaid, did, “ then and there, without authority of law, at the said office- “ of the said illegal bank, use and exercise banking and dis- “ counting privileges, in this State, for their own lucre and gain “ contrary to the Statute, whereby the defendants were guilty “ of a misdemeanor, and forfeited a fine of five…
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