State v. Myers
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Henry District Court. The indictment charged that the defendant forged and counterfeited gold and silver coin, and that he had in his possession counterfeit coin, knowing the same to be false and counterfeited, and with intent to utter and pass the same as true, &o. Trial- and verdict of guilty.
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Appeal from Henry District Court. The indictment charged that the defendant forged and counterfeited gold and silver coin, and that he had in his possession counterfeit coin, knowing the same to be false and counterfeited, and with intent to utter and pass the same as true, &o. Trial- and verdict of guilty. The defendant appeals, and assigns the errors presented in the opinion of the court. relied upon The State v. Abrams, 6 Iowa 117; Sturgis v. Commonwealth, 6 Met. 241; 1 Bish. Or. L. section 148.
1Opinion of the CourtLowe, C. J.
In reviewing the record in this cause we find but one question raised that possesses the semblance of error, and that question we have very recently decided against the appellant in the case of The State v. Cooster, ante.
In this latter case the defendant was indicted under section 2721 of the Code for keeping a gambling house, and also for suffering other persons to gamble at his house. The *449two charges are in different clauses in the same section connected by a conjunction disjunctive, and were both set out in the same indictment; yet we held in that case that the indictment was not…
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