Commonwealth v. Peakes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in the Superior Court on October 6, 1917, charging thé defendant with the crimes of forging certain instruments, each purporting to be “an accountable receipt for money,” and with uttering such forged instruments as true and with the larceny of money, all in twenty-five counts, the substance of the crimes charged being stated in the opinion. The defendant was tried before Dana, J. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Indictment, found and returned in the Superior Court on October 6, 1917, charging thé defendant with the crimes of forging certain instruments, each purporting to be “an accountable receipt for money,” and with uttering such forged instruments as true and with the larceny of money, all in twenty-five counts, the substance of the crimes charged being stated in the opinion. The defendant was tried before Dana, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the defendant asked the judge to rule and instruct the jury as follows: “As to the counts on forgery: “2.…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The jury have found the defendant guilty
on an indictment containing twenty-five counts, based upon nine separate transactions. The nineteenth count charges him ■with the larceny of $2,200, and twenty-four counts are "for forgery, uttering. and larceny in relation to the other eight- occurrences. The facts with reference to these last, as proved by the Commonwealth and admitted by the defendant in his testimony, are substantially these: Peakes was the treasurer of F. E. Atteaux and Company, Incorporated, a corporation organized in Massachusetts in 1914, to take over the business of a similar…
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