Case Name: United States v. William Plympton
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1833-03
Citations: 4 Cranch 309
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. William Plympton.
Judges: (Thruston, J., absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 4
Pages: 309–309

Head Matter:
United States v. William Plympton.
A forged paper, inclosed at Baltimore in a letter directed to a person in 'Washington, D. C., and put into the post-office at Baltimore,^is not an uttering of the note in Washington.
Indictment for forgery, by altering two checks on the Baltimore Savings Institution, 27th August, 1831; and for uttering them, knowing them to be so forged. The counts for forging the checks were abandoned.
Upon the counts for uttering, &c., the uttering, attempted to be proved, was by putting the altered checks, inclosed in a letter, intp the post-office in Baltimore in Maryland, directed to Richard Wright, in Washington, D. C. ; which was like tlf- case of the United States v. Wright, at December term; 1821, and April term, 1822, in this Court, (2 Cranch, C. C. 296,) where the forged paper was put into the post-office in Tennessee, inclosed in a letter directed to a person in Washington; in which case this Court, upon a special verdict, decided that the uttering was not in Washington county.

Opinion:
Upon the authority of that case,
the Court
(Thruston, J., absent,)
instructed the jury that the facts proved did not show an uttering in this county.
Verdict, not guilty.