People v. Stewart
Michigan Supreme Court
On exceptions from Wayne Circuit. The defendant was indicted under section 5809 of Compiled Laws. The indictment contained two counts. The first count charged him with having in his possession a one dollar counterfeit bill on the Providence Bank, Rhode Island, with the intent to utter and pass the same as true: the second count with having the said Ml in his possession, with the intent to render the same current as true.
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On exceptions from Wayne Circuit. The defendant was indicted under section 5809 of Compiled Laws. The indictment contained two counts. The first count charged him with having in his possession a one dollar counterfeit bill on the Providence Bank, Rhode Island, with the intent to utter and pass the same as true: the second count with having the said Ml in his possession, with the intent to render the same current as true. On the trial, the prosecution first introduced John S. Armstrong as a witness, whose testimony tended to prove that some three or four weeks previous to May 12th, 1856, he…
1Opinion of the Court
Manning J.:
The section under which the prisoner was indicted embraces two separate and distinct offenses (Comp. L. §5809; Stewart's Case, 4 Mich. 655) — one, which consists in having in possession a counterfeit bill, with intent to utter or pass the same as true, knowing it to be false, &c.; the other, in having it in possession, with intent to sell or otherwise dispose of it as a counterfeit bill, to be rendered current, or uttered or passed as true.
The Court erred in admitting the evidence' of Cicott. The having in possession, by the prisoner, the large amount of counterfeit bills, on the…
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- People v. StewartMichigan Supreme Court · 1857
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