United States v. Barrett

AMIDON, District Judge.

The defendant is charged in the indictment with the violation of that provision of section 5430 of the Revised Statutes which reads as follows:

“Every person who has in his possession or custody, except under authority from tlie secretary of the treasury or other proper officer, any obligation or other security, engraved and printed after the similitude of any obligation or other security issued under the authority of the United States, with intent to sell or otherwise use the same, shall be punished,” etc.

The instrument which is the ground of the prosecution is a…