State v. Robinson & Chittenden

Sylvester W. Robinson was found guilty, at the Essex Oyer and Terminer, in June 1838, of uttering to Joseph Munn, Jr., a forged five dollar note of the Lafayette Bank, in Boston, knowing the same to be counterfeit. To prove he knew it to be such, evidence was oifered of his having passed to W. B. Speer, a forged two dollar note on the same bank, the same day; for which he had been indicted and tried, but acquitted; his counsel therefore objected to the evidence, but it it was admitted by the court. After conviction, sentence was suspended, in order *508to take the opinión of the rest of the…