In re Truman
Supreme Court of Missouri
Petition for writ of habeas corpus. I. Congress must delegate the power to punish for counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States to the States, and the States must pass laws for the purpose, ere the State courts can have jurisdiction of such offenses. Congress has not done so. (1 U. S. Stat. at Large, 78, § 11.) There is no act that does so authorize.
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Petition for writ of habeas corpus. I. Congress must delegate the power to punish for counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States to the States, and the States must pass laws for the purpose, ere the State courts can have jurisdiction of such offenses. Congress has not done so. (1 U. S. Stat. at Large, 78, § 11.) There is no act that does so authorize. ( Vide Act of Congress, of April 21, 1866; 2 U. S. Stat. at Large, 404, § 4; Act of Congress, of March 8, 1825 ; 4 U. S. Stat. at Large, 115, § 26 ; Laws of U. S. 1863-4, p. 221, § 10 el seg.) II. This State has failed…
1Opinion of the CourtCurrier, Judge
At a special term of the Johnson County Circuit Court, Truman was arraigned, tried, and found guilty of forgery in the second degree, upon an indictment charging the passing by him, with intent to defraud, of a fifty-dollar United States compound interest treasury note. He was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of six years, and was thereto committed in accordance with the sentence. He is now brought before this court in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus, with a view to his discharge from further imprisonment, upon the ground that the court trying him…
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