Commonwealth v. Cone
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an indictment on the second section of the “ Act against forgery and counterfeiting,” (1) by which it is enacted that if any person, having knowledge of the forging any bank bills, shall willingly aid or assist in rendering current as true any such forged bills, and for that purpose shall possess, at any one time, any number, not less than ten, of such forged bills, knowing the same to be forged, with intent to utter or pass them, and thereby injure and defraud any…
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This was an indictment on the second section of the “ Act against forgery and counterfeiting,” (1) by which it is enacted that if any person, having knowledge of the forging any bank bills, shall willingly aid or assist in rendering current as true any such forged bills, and for that purpose shall possess, at any one time, any number, not less than ten, of such forged bills, knowing the same to be forged, with intent to utter or pass them, and thereby injure and defraud any body politic or corporate, or any person or persons, then, &c. The indictment charges the defendant with being possessed…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, J.,
declared himself satisfied with the verdict, and saw no cause for granting a new trial.
* Sedgwick, J.
The indictment charges, in substance, that the prisoner, since the 15th of March, 1805, the date of the statute in that behalf, was possessed of ten counterfeit notes of the Nantucket Bank, which is by law licensed and authorized as a bank within this commonwealth, knowing the same to be so counterfeit, with an intention to utter and pass the same, and thereby to injure and defraud the said Nantucket Bank.
The prisoner was tried before me, and the verdict was given on very…
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