Lewis v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Court of Oyer an.d Terminer of Bedford county. David Lewis was indicted and convicted of the crime- of uttering, publishing, and paying to a certain Jacob S. Bossier, a counterfeited bank note of the Hagerstown bank, in the state of Maryland, knowing the same to be counterfeited, with an intent to defraud the said-Bossier, and to his great damage.
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In Error. ERROR to the Court of Oyer an.d Terminer of Bedford county. David Lewis was indicted and convicted of the crime- of uttering, publishing, and paying to a certain Jacob S. Bossier, a counterfeited bank note of the Hagerstown bank, in the state of Maryland, knowing the same to be counterfeited, with an intent to defraud the said-Bossier, and to his great damage. The judgment was imprisonment at hard labour, &c. for six years in the penitentiary of the city of Philadelphia. The error assigned was in the judgment: and the question was, whether for the offences charged in the indictment,…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
The indictment is at common law, and the judgment is founded on the fourth section “ of the act to “reform the penal laws of this state,” passed the fifth of April, 1790. In this section, it is enacted, that every person convicted of an offence not capital, for which by the laws in force before the act entitled “ an act to amend the penal laws “of this state,” (passed the 27th March, 1789,) placing in and upon the pillory, whipping, &c, may be inflicted, shall, instead of such parts of the punishment, be lined, and “sen-. “ tenced to undergo, in the like manner, and be confined,…
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