Gutchins v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Gutchins was indicted at the April term, 1859, of the Recorder’s Court for the city of Chicago, before R. S. Wilson, for having in his possession a certain false, forged and counterfeited bank bill, which said false, forged and counterfeited bank bill, is there set out and described, purporting to be a two dollar bill of the Delaware City Bank of Kansas, which he feloniously passed to one Jeremiah dowry, as true and genuine, with intent to defraud, etc., Gutchins knowing the…
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Gutchins was indicted at the April term, 1859, of the Recorder’s Court for the city of Chicago, before R. S. Wilson, for having in his possession a certain false, forged and counterfeited bank bill, which said false, forged and counterfeited bank bill, is there set out and described, purporting to be a two dollar bill of the Delaware City Bank of Kansas, which he feloniously passed to one Jeremiah dowry, as true and genuine, with intent to defraud, etc., Gutchins knowing the same to be false, forged, etc. On the trial the proof showed, that the bill was fraudulent as a bill of a bank in…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The plaintiff in error, was indicted and con•victed for uttering and passing as genuine, a two dollar bill on “ The Delaware City Bank ” with intent to defraud Jeremiah dowry. The indictment contained but one count. And the '■evidence on the trial shows, that the bill in question was not on .•any bank incorporated by, or within the limits, of this State. It ¡also shows that this bill was fictitious, there being no such bank -in existence.
We are asked to reverse this conviction, first, because under our statute it is made a penal offense to pass or to receive, any bank bill of a less…
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