Case Name: State v. Samuel Page
Court: New Hampshire Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1807-02
Citations: 1 Smith (N. H.) 149
Docket Number: 
Parties: State v. Samuel Page.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions of the Superior and Supreme Courts of New Hampshire, from 1802 to 1809, and from 1813 to 1816.
Volume: 1
Pages: 149–149

Head Matter:
STRAFFORD, FEBRUARY TERM, 1807.
State v. Samuel Page.
Indictment for forgery. Defendant held genuine negotiable notes against A. lie forged others like them, and, on payment, gave up the forged ones, and retained the genuine.
Held, forgery.

Opinion:
Indictment, charging defendant with forging and counterfeiting two notes, Ebenezer Kelley to Samuel Page or order; $1,589.25, payable on demand, with interest, date Aug. 25, 1804; and $260, payable on demand, with interest, date Nov. 21, 1803; and uttering the same notes.
Plea: not guilty.
The facts were : that Kelley had given genuine notes of the tenor of those described; had paid them; defendant forged notes every way resembling the genuine, and gave them up to Kelley as the genuine, to be cancelled, retaining the true notes in his possession.
The indictment was for forging the notes he gave up to be cancelled on payment.
Defendant convicted and sentenced.
N. B. Defendant immediately broke jail and escaped.