United States v. James Howell Smith

This is an appeal from the District Court for the Western District of Kentucky wherein defendant-appellant, James Howell Smith, was found guilty of possessing and passing counterfeit bills in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 472.

About noon of April 14, 1964, one James Williams, part owner of the Dairy Malt Drive-In, Georgetown, Kentucky, and also a deputy sheriff, refused to cash a ten dollar bill for appellant because it “doesn’t look right.” A clerk in the same establishment had just accepted a twenty dollar bill from the same man in payment for a ninety-three cent purchase. Williams looked at…