Drew v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In the Mayor’s Court for the City of Philadelphia, Charles Drew, Elijah Drew, and Elisha Drew were indicted, for that they the said Charles Drew, Elijah Drew and Elisha Drew, “ on the 9th day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1833, at the city aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the said Court, with force and arms, feloniously did falsely make, forge, and counterfeit a certain check on The Philadelphia Bank, purporting to be drawn by Joseph G. Parke & Co. for the…
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In the Mayor’s Court for the City of Philadelphia, Charles Drew, Elijah Drew, and Elisha Drew were indicted, for that they the said Charles Drew, Elijah Drew and Elisha Drew, “ on the 9th day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1833, at the city aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the said Court, with force and arms, feloniously did falsely make, forge, and counterfeit a certain check on The Philadelphia Bank, purporting to be drawn by Joseph G. Parke & Co. for the sum of $5520 26, to be payable to bearer, and to be dated the day and year aforesaid : the said The Philadelphia Bank…
1Per curiam
By the eleventh section of the act of 1824, the forging of a bank check such as this, is declared to be a felony punishable with fine and imprisonment at solitary labour for not less than one year nor more than ten years. How far has this been altered by the act of 1829? -Bv the fourth section of that .act, it is declared that instead of the punishment theretofore prescribed, imprisonment at solitary labour for a period not less than one year, nor more than seven, shall be inflicted for the first offence, and the like imprisonment, not exceeding ten years, for the second. Did the question…
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