State v. McAllister
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions from the Middle District Court, Redington J. presiding. The exceptions state that this was an indictment for uttering and passing counterfeit bills, purporting to be of the Augusta Bank, viz., three bills of three dollars each, and one bill of one dollar.
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Exceptions from the Middle District Court, Redington J. presiding. The exceptions state that this was an indictment for uttering and passing counterfeit bills, purporting to be of the Augusta Bank, viz., three bills of three dollars each, and one bill of one dollar. The County Attorney introduced George W. Allen as a witness, (who testified, without objection, that he was cashier of the Augusta Bank,) and showed him a bill purporting to be of the Washington Bank, Boston, and inquired, if lie knew the difference between the true and counterfeit bills of that bank. He testified that he did;…
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Tenney J.
This was an indictment for uttering and passing certain counterfeit bills purporting to be of the Augusta Bank, tried in the District Court. Several exceptions were taken to the rulings and to the instructions to the jury of the Judge’; and we proceed to examine such as have been relied upon in the argument.
1. It is insisted, that George W. Alien, the cashier of the Bank, was improperly admitted to testify to his knowledge of the difference between the true and the spurious bills of the Washington Bank, situated in Boston, and that the bill…
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