United States v. French
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
At Law.. On demurrer to the indictment, which was drawn under Rev. St. U. S. 5209, providing as follows: “Every president, director, cashier, toller, clerk, or agent of any association, who makes any false entry in any hook, report, or statement of the association, with intent to injure or defraud the association, or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of the association, or any agent appointed to examine the…
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At Law.. On demurrer to the indictment, which was drawn under Rev. St. U. S. 5209, providing as follows: “Every president, director, cashier, toller, clerk, or agent of any association, who makes any false entry in any hook, report, or statement of the association, with intent to injure or defraud the association, or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of the association, or any agent appointed to examine the affairs of any such association, and every person who. with like intent, aids or abets any officer, clerk, or agent in any…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This case is now submitted on a demurrer filed by Jonas H. French, who is charged as aider and abettor of Joseph W. Work, cashier of the Maverick national Bank, in making false entries in reports to the comptroller of the currency. Although, perhaps, not necessary to the full extent found in this indictment, (U. S. v. Mills, 7 Pet. 138, and U. S. v. Simmonds, 96 U. S. 360,) yet counsel on each side concede that the allegations in the various counts, touching the acts of the cashier, Work, are framed like the allegations in counts 13 to 35, each inclusive, of the…
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