United States v. Marcus

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This case comes before the court upou a motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial. The motions were heard together. The charge against the defendant was of passing counterfeit money. It appeared in evidence that the accused, on a certain day. took to the Butchers’ & Drovers’ Bank certain bills for deposit to Ms credit; that the receiving teller ascertained that; one of the hills was a counterfeit, and thereupon stamped on the face of the bill, in plain and large letters, the word “Counterfeit,” and returned the hill to the defendant. Afterwards the defendant…