Howgate v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by a defendant indicted and convicted of forgery and uttering forged paper and for violation of Sec. 5421, R. S. U. S. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: The appellant, Henry W. Howgate, was indicted on April 1, 1895, in two several indictments, the one for forgery and the uttering of a forged paper, and the other for transmitting to an officer of the Treasury Department a certain false or forged certificate with intent to defraud the…
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Hearing on an appeal by a defendant indicted and convicted of forgery and uttering forged paper and for violation of Sec. 5421, R. S. U. S. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: The appellant, Henry W. Howgate, was indicted on April 1, 1895, in two several indictments, the one for forgery and the uttering of a forged paper, and the other for transmitting to an officer of the Treasury Department a certain false or forged certificate with intent to defraud the United States, in violation of the provisions of section 5421 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. All the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
Fifty-two assignments of error are stated, and these assignments are based upon upwards of sixty exceptions taken on behalf of the appellant during the course of the trial. The questions of law, however, raised by these exceptions, are no more than three or four in number, and it is therefore unnecessary to notice the assignments in detail.
1. The first question that is made is as to the sufficiency of the indictments as stating a cause of action against the appellant. This question is raised by a motion in arrest of judgment, and by three prayers (numbered 1, 2 and 3) for instructions to the…
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