Case Name: UNITED STATES v. PLYMPTON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1833-03
Citations: 27 F. Cas. 578
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. PLYMPTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 27
Pages: 578–578

Head Matter:
Case No. 16,058.
UNITED STATES v. PLYMPTON.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 309.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
March Term, 1833.
Uttering Forged Paper — Venue of Offence.
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.
[Cited in Palliser v. U. S., 13G U. S. 267, 10 Sup. Ct. 1037.]
Indictment [against William Plympton] 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, into the - post-office in Baltimore in Maryland, directed to Richard Wright, in Washington, D. C.; which was like the case of U. S. v. Wright [Case No. 16.773], at December term, 1S21, and April term, 1S22, in this court, 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. Circuit Judge, absent)
instructed the jury that the facts proved did not show an uttering in this county.
Verdict, not guilty.-