State v. Moore

Mr. Justice Cothran :

I concur in the result attained by the opinion of Mr. Justice Eraser, which is the dismissal of the prosecution, upon the ground of want of jurisdiction, and not upon the ground that the demurrer to the indictment should have been sustained, for the ground upon which the dismissal is adjudged was not the ground of the demurrer.

The Act of 1923, in prescribing a new element in the offense declared by the Act of 1909 (26 St. at Large, p. 18), the intent to defraud, and by its manifest provisions, was intended to cover the whole subject of “bogus checks,” and embraced new…