People v. . Albow
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the supreme court, general term', second department, affirming judgment of the Dutchess county-court of sessions, entered upon conviction of defendant for a violation of section 527 of the Penal Code, in that Me aided and abetted in a green goods scheme.
1Opinion of the Court
ANDREWS, Ch. J.
We think the indictment is fatally.defective in that it does not allege the commission of the offense created by section 527 of the Penal Code. The section is entitled “Advertising Counterfeit Money,” and the purpose of the enactment was to reach the nefarious business of offering or pretending to offer for sale counterfeit money, and inducing people, by what is popularly known as the “green goods” ■scheme, or similar devices, to invest their money, receiving in return either counterfeit money, or packages purporting to contain counterfeit money, but which in fact contained…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. HessSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
3Cited by21 opinions
- Goldberg v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1921
- People v. . CorbalisNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
- People v. . KaneNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- People v. Williams, New York County Courts1930
- People v. KaneAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
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