Dibble v. People
New York Supreme Court
The prisoner was convicted at the February term of the Otsego Court of Sessions, in 1859, of forgery in the second degree, to wit: for uttering as true, to one Newman, a certain counterfeit promissory note called a bank bill, which purported to have .been issued by “ The Westfield Bank,” a corporation duly formed under and by virtue of the laws of Massachusetts. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison at Auburn for the term of five years and two months.
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The prisoner was convicted at the February term of the Otsego Court of Sessions, in 1859, of forgery in the second degree, to wit: for uttering as true, to one Newman, a certain counterfeit promissory note called a bank bill, which purported to have .been issued by “ The Westfield Bank,” a corporation duly formed under and by virtue of the laws of Massachusetts. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison at Auburn for the term of five years and two months. His counsel took exceptions on the. trial, and made a bill of exceptions, which formed part of the record of conviction. He…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Balcom, J.
The district attorney proved that the prisoner passed the counterfeit note or bill described in the indictment,- to one Newman, as genuine.. He then proved, by Smith Kinyon, that the-prisoner, a day or two thereafter, went from his residence, near Oneonta, to Catskill, and that while going there he staid over night at a tavern kept by one Stevens, and there bought a ring of a pedler, and gave him a five dollar bill to pay for it. The pedler remarked that the bill was good, and he would take it for any goods he had. A bystander said it was not good, but the pedler took…
2Cited by1 opinion
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