United States v. Coppersmith
United States Circuit Court
Indictmént for counterfeiting.
1Opinion of the Court
Hammond, D. J.
The defendant, being on trial for counterfeiting the coin of the United States, has peremptorily challenged three of the jurors tendered to him, and claims the .right to challenge another, and any number to the extent of 10, under section 819 of the Eevised Statutes. He insists that the offence of mating counterfeit coin is a felony at common law, and therefore a felony in the purview of that section; he also insists that being punishable by imprisonment at hard labor, which necessarily implies confinement in a •penitentiary, it is a felony according to the ordinary acceptation…
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