Fox v. Ohio
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by a-writ of error, issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, from the Supreme Court of Ohio. It was an indictment, in the State court, against Malinda Fox, for “passing and uttering .a certain piece of false, base, and- counterfeit coin, forged and counterfeited to the likeness and similitude of the good and legal silver coin currently passing in the State of Ohio, called a dollar.”
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This case was brought up by a-writ of error, issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, from the Supreme Court of Ohio. It was an indictment, in the State court, against Malinda Fox, for “passing and uttering .a certain piece of false, base, and- counterfeit coin, forged and counterfeited to the likeness and similitude of the good and legal silver coin currently passing in the State of Ohio, called a dollar.” Being convicted, the case was taken by her, upon writ of error, to the court in bank of the State, its highest judicial tribunal; and at the December term, 1842, of that…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
This case comes before us on a writ of error to. the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, by whose judgment was affirmed the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Morgan in that State, convicting the plaintiff of passing, with fraudulent intent, a base and counterfeit coin in the similitude of a good and legal silver dollar,- and sentencing her for that offence to imprisonment and labor in the State penitentiáry for three years.
The prosecution against the plaintiff occurred in virtue of a statute of Ohio of March 7th,' J.835, and the particular clause on which the indictment…
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