United States v. Nelson

WITHEY, District Judge.

The respondent Theodore Nelson, was indicted in May last, and tried at the present October term on a charge of passing, uttering, and publish*81ing a counterfeit United States fractional note with intent to defraud the United States. The trial consumed ten days, and resulted -in a verdict of guilty.

At the coming in of the verdict, a motion was made for a new trial, on the ground of evidence improperly admitted. The proof was, that a person employed by the government officials, as a detective for the purpose, applied to Kelson for counterfeit money, to be, by the detective,…