Foster v. State

The prisoner was indicted under section 158 of Article 21 of the Code, for stealing one bank note, for the payment of money, to wit, for the payment of twenty *554dollars” and divers other hank notes; and the sole question is whether it was competent for the State to offer in evidence, in support of the indictment, the stealing of a national bank note of the denomination of twenty dollars, issued by the “Moravia National Banh.” Since the decision in State vs. Cassel, 2 H. & G., 407, this can no longer he considered an open question. In that case, the prisoner was indicted under the Act of 1809,…