Morse v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Charles W. Morse was convicted of offenses against the national banking law, and brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Charles W. Morse was convicted of offenses against the national banking law, and brings error. On writ of error to review a judgment, entered upon the verdict of a jury, convicting the defendants Morse and Alfred H. Curtis, as vice president and president, respectively, of the National Bank of North America, of making false entries in the books and reports of the bank and of misapplication of its funds. Three indictments were filed against the defendants containing 84 counts. These indictments were…
1Per curiam
It is urged that grave injustice was done the defendant Morse in requiring him to answer an indictment charging him with having committed 84 separate and distinct offenses.
The trial occupied 3 weeks, the court sitting from 10 o’clock until 5 each day, Saturdays included; so that, if the ordinary court hours had been observed the (rial would have occupied 4)4 weeks.
The questions considered required the examination of a large number of complicated banking and commercial transactions, necessitating the study of a vast array of figures and the understanding of the bookkeeping and procedure…
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