Harman v. State

Indictment for passing counterfeit money. Conviction and sentence to the penitentiary.

All the questions arising in the case, except two, are settled by that of Wilkinson v. The State, 10 Ind. R. 372.

The two unsettled questions are these:

1. The counterfeit bill charged in the indictment was passed on Sunday, and hence, it is insisted, that the defendant should have been prosecuted for a violation of the Sabbath, and not for passing counterfeit money. But we think it was proper to indict the defendant for the commission of the higher crime, and should he subsequently be prose*312cuted for violating…