Nastasi v. Aderhold

Wyatt, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The record raises but a single question for determination: Whether the Superior Court of Fulton County, upon the facts alleged in the indictment, had any jurisdiction over the subject-matter.

The fifth and sixth clauses of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States invest Congress with the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, and to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the current coin of the United States. It is urged by the plaintiff in error that since the…