Court Opinion

ID: 6801946
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 18:42:56.711193+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:03:16.718931
License: Public Domain

BY THE COURT.
The Court in Bank has already decided
upon this record, as to another defendant, 5 O. R. 269. When written instruments enter into the gist of the offence, as in forgery, libel, sending threatening letters, &c., they must be set out. But this will not hold in cases of larceny of notes; because the offence is the act of stealing, and the contents of the note have no connec*74tion with the crime; Arch. C. Pl. 19; 1 East. P. C. 1123; 6 T. R. 162. The indictment in this case charges the defendant with having 200 counterfeit notes in possession, not filled up, with intention to fill them up, in imitation of genuine notes of the Bank of the United States. The notes are not set out. In this class of cases, the instrument should be set out, that the court may judge whether they are such that the forging and circulating them constitute the crime of forgery.
The judgment is reversed, and the prisoner ordered to be discharged from the penitentiary. 29 O. L. 160.
Copy of forged notes must be given in indictment; Dana v. State, 2 O. L. 91, 95.