Commonwealth v. Ross
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The indictment was found at the last November term, and contained two counts, 1st. It charges that the defendant, “at Boston, in said county, with force and arms, on the 21st day of June, in the present year, did willingly and deceitfully cause, or procure and abet and command, the forging and making a certain promissory note in writing for money, purporting to be a true and genuine promissory note of one Salisbury Blackmer to the said James Ross, or his order, for the sum…
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The indictment was found at the last November term, and contained two counts, 1st. It charges that the defendant, “at Boston, in said county, with force and arms, on the 21st day of June, in the present year, did willingly and deceitfully cause, or procure and abet and command, the forging and making a certain promissory note in writing for money, purporting to be a true and genuine promissory note of one Salisbury Blackmer to the said James Ross, or his order, for the sum of 500 dollars, and dated in September, A. D. 1805, with an intent the said £. B. to wrong and defraud.” The 2d count was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
He may be sentenced on the second count. And he was afterwards brought into Court and sentenced to thirty days’ solitary imprisonment, and two years’ confinement at hard labor in the state prison, (a)
Commonwealth vs. Ward, post, 397.— Same vs. Bailey, 1 Mass. Rep. 62.— Same vs. Stevens, 1 Mass. Rep. 203. — Sed vide Commomoealth vs. Houghton, 8 Mass. Rep. 107.—2 Russell on Crimes, 359, 360, 2d Loud. ed. —Archb. Crim. Pl.41.
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- Commonwealth v. HoughtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1811
- Commonwealth v. StevensMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1804
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