Hagan v. United States

MACK, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was indicted and subsequently convicted for passing and conspiring to pass counterfeit war savings certificate stamps of the United States, knowing them at the time to be counterfeit. It is now urged in his behalf, both that there was no substantial evidence from which the jury could find that the defendant had this knowledge, and that the court erred in instructing the jury that the defendant was responsible and chargeable with the result which a reasonable inquiry into the genuineness of the stamps would have produced to him, whether or not he made…