United States v. Williams

Dyer, D. J.,

The defendants have been convicted, under section 5430 of the Revised Statutes, of the offense of having in their possession an obligation engraved and printed after the similitude of an obligation issued under the authority of the United States, with intent to sell or otherwise use the same. A motion for a new trial has been argued and is now to be decided. It was shown on the trial, *551by the testimony of a bank expert, that the instrument which the defendants had in their possession and attempted to exchange for money resembles in color, style of printing and engraving, and in…