Van Horne v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was an indictment for forging and counterfeiting the corporation notes, or change tickets, issued by the corporation of Little Rock, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, at May term, 1843, before the Hon. John J. Clendenin, one of the circuit judges.
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This was an indictment for forging and counterfeiting the corporation notes, or change tickets, issued by the corporation of Little Rock, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, at May term, 1843, before the Hon. John J. Clendenin, one of the circuit judges. The indictment charged Trowbridge, Whitmore, and Van Horne, that they “feloniously did forge and counterfeit, the counterfeit resemblance and imitation of certain notes and instruments which circulated, by usage as currency, at the lime of. said forgery, purporting to be of the corporation of the city of Little Rock,” &c., &c., “with…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lacy, J.
There are but two principal questions made and relied on to reverse the judgment of the court below. Their decision necessarily disposes of all the minor points in the cause. It is said that the indictment charges no offence against the prisoner; and if it does, there is no law punishing him for counterfeiting the change tickets of the corporation of the city of Little Rock. The indictment pursues not only strictly but literally the words of the act; and if it charges no offence; then the law creates none. The indictment, which is a transcript of the statute, charges the…
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