U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia, 1831

United States v. Byers

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · Decided May 15, 1831 · Cranch, Doubting

25 F. Cas. 231; 4 Cranch 171

Opinion of the Court

But THE COURT

(CRANCH, Chief Judge, doubting)

stopped the attorney of the United States, and said that the note itself, being proved to be the note stolen, is prima facie evidence of what it purports on its face to be.

Mr. Hellen then contended that the United States must prove it to be a note of a chartered bank.

But THE COURT (CRANCH, Chief Judge, doubting) said that the ninth section of the penitentiary act only required that it should be a bank-note.

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