Hanbury v. Commonwealth

In February, 1961, there were returned in the Corporation Court of Lynchburg twenty-two indictments against the defendant, Joseph V. Hanbury. In one he was charged with having in his possession a rubber stamp with intent to use it in forging and falsely making a certain impression upon packages of cigarettes, stating that the tax thereon due the city of Lynchburg had been paid, when in fact it had not been paid. Two of them charged him with forging on certain packages of cigarettes a stamp purporting to reflect that the tax due the city on each package had been paid when in fact it had not…