United States v. Book

24 F. Cas. 1202, 2 Cranch 294

• Court: U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
• Decided: April 15, 1822
• Status: Published

Opinion

THE COURT

decided that the acquittal upon the former indictment was not a bar to the present; being of opinion that the exception taken to the former indictment was fatal. See 1 Chit. Or. I aw, 455.

The prisoner’s counsel also contended that the instrument forged was not an order within the English decisions upon the English-statute of 7 Geo. II. c. 22; Mitchell’s Case, cited in 2 East, P. C. 936, and William’s Case. 1 Leach, 114; and Ellor’s Case. Id. 323.

But THE COURT said, that upon that point he might move in- afres't of judgment if the prisoner should be convicted. See U. S. v. Bates [Case No. 14,542] in this court, June term, 1810, upon the act of Maryland of 1799, c. 75. § 2. in which the court decided that the words “draft for the payment of money or delivery of goods,” included such an order as the present.

Verdict, “Guilty.”

Motion in arrest of judgment overruled.