United States v. Potter
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
At Law. Indictments against Asa P. Potter, president, and Thomas Dana and Jonas H. French, directors, of the Maverick National Bank of Boston, for violating tlie national banking laws. Heard on demurrers to the indictments. Indictment No. 1,211 was against Asa P. Potter.
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At Law. Indictments against Asa P. Potter, president, and Thomas Dana and Jonas H. French, directors, of the Maverick National Bank of Boston, for violating tlie national banking laws. Heard on demurrers to the indictments. Indictment No. 1,211 was against Asa P. Potter. Eighty-eight counts charged him with certifying and causing to he certified 11 different checks, and were founded on the following statutes: Act of July 12, 1882, c. 290, § 13: “That any officer, clerk, or agent of any national hanking association who shall willfully violate the provision of an act entitled ‘An act in…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The sixth amendment to the constitution provides that in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation. This is a reaffirmation of the essential principles of the common law, but puts it beyond the power of either congress or the courts to abrogate them. It follows, as a matter of course, that the effect of this provision commences with the statutes fixing or declaring offenses, and, as to them, insures the general rule of the common law that they, are not to be construed to embrace offenses which are…
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