State v. Young
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
The grand jury found a bill of indictment against the respondent containing two counts'as follows, viz: "The grand jurors for the State of New Hampshire,- upon their oath, present that Otis Young, junior, of Plymouth, in the ■ county of Grafton, husbandman, on the twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, at Gilford, in the county of Belknap aforesaid, with force and arms, did falsely make and counterfeit a certain writing…
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The grand jury found a bill of indictment against the respondent containing two counts'as follows, viz: "The grand jurors for the State of New Hampshire,- upon their oath, present that Otis Young, junior, of Plymouth, in the ■ county of Grafton, husbandman, on the twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, at Gilford, in the county of Belknap aforesaid, with force and arms, did falsely make and counterfeit a certain writing purporting to contain evidence of the existence of a certain debt, contract and promise, contracted and made by one…
1Opinion of the CourtSargent, J.
Lord Coke says : "To forge is metaphorically taken from the smith who beateth upon his anvil and forgeth what fashion or shape he will; the offence is called crimen falsi, and the offender falsarious, and the Latin word to forge is falsare or fabricare, and this is properly taken where the act is done in the name of another person.” 3 Inst. 169.
"Forgery at common law denotes a false making (which includes every alteration or addition to a true instrument,) a making malo animo, of any written instrument for the purpose of fraud and deceit.” 2 East. P. C. 852.
Forgery is the false making or…
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