United States v. Beebe
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Indictment under Rev. St. § 5431 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3671], for passing a counterfeit $5 treasury note or greenback. On motion to direct verdict for defendant. The bill which was passed was a $5 note of the Oil City Bank, a state institution, issued in 1862. No doubt it is intrinsically worthless, but still it is genuine and not counterfeit.
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Indictment under Rev. St. § 5431 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3671], for passing a counterfeit $5 treasury note or greenback. On motion to direct verdict for defendant. The bill which was passed was a $5 note of the Oil City Bank, a state institution, issued in 1862. No doubt it is intrinsically worthless, but still it is genuine and not counterfeit. The suggestion that it bears resemblance to a United States treasury note because the engraving on the back is in green, so as to bring it within the act of Congress, is absurd. The act was not intended for any such case, and cannot properly be…
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBAIyD, District Judge.
This is a case to he dealt with by the state, and not the federal, law. On its face the bill is that of the Oil City Bank, a state institution, and is to all appearances genuine. Whether the bank is now in existence we do not know; nor whether, if it is, the note would he redeemed upon presentation. Nor is it material. The result is the same, assuming the hill to be worthless. The charge is that it is in similitude of a $5 treasury note or greenback, for which it is liable to be mistaken because of the color in which the back is printed, and as which it was passed by…
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- United States v. FitzgeraldDistrict Court, D. Washington · 1898
- United States v. StevensDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1891
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