Commonwealth v. Hall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment charging the defendant with having in his possession, on March 21, 1867, with intent to utter, knowing the same to be false, “ eleven counterfeit bank bills purporting to be issued by the president, directors and company of the People’s National Bank of Jackson, then being an incorporated banking company duly established in the State of Michigan, and each one of the said eleven similar, false, forged, and counterfeit bank bills being of the tenor following, to…
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Indictment charging the defendant with having in his possession, on March 21, 1867, with intent to utter, knowing the same to be false, “ eleven counterfeit bank bills purporting to be issued by the president, directors and company of the People’s National Bank of Jackson, then being an incorporated banking company duly established in the State of Michigan, and each one of the said eleven similar, false, forged, and counterfeit bank bills being of the tenor following, to wit: ‘ D. 2897. National Currency. This note is secured by bonds of the United States, deposited with the United States’…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
A national banking association is an incorporated banking company established within the United States, and within the particular state in which it is located and does business ; and its bills are bank-bills. This indictment therefore charges an offence against the Gen. Sts. c. 162, § 5. Commonwealth v. Tenney, ante, 50.
The variance between the bills described in the indictment and those offered in evidence at the trial is rendered immaterial by the provisions of the St. of 1864, c. 250, § 1; for we cannot doubt that the identity of the bills offered in evidence with the description thereof…
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