Commonwealth v. Fuller
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The indictment, in this case, alleged that the defendant, on the 15th day of April 1844, “ at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, had in his custody and possession, at the same time, ten similar pieces of false and counterfeit coin, of the likeness and similitude of the silver coin current within this Common wealth, by the laws and usages thereof, called Mexican dollars, with intent then and there the said pieces of false and counterfeit coin to utter and pass as true, he…
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The indictment, in this case, alleged that the defendant, on the 15th day of April 1844, “ at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, had in his custody and possession, at the same time, ten similar pieces of false and counterfeit coin, of the likeness and similitude of the silver coin current within this Common wealth, by the laws and usages thereof, called Mexican dollars, with intent then and there the said pieces of false and counterfeit coin to utter and pass as true, he the said David R. Fuller then and there well knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, against the peace of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHubbard, J.
This indictment is founded upon §15 of c. 127 of the Rev. Sts., which declares that “every person, who shall counterfeit any gold or silver coin, current by law or usage within this State, and every person, who shall have in his possession, at the same time, ten or more pieces of false money or coin counterfeited in the similitude of any gold or silver coin current as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, and with intent to utter or pass the same as true, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life, or for any term of years.”
It is admitted that Mexican…
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