United States v. Barry

24 F. Cas. 1020 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia | 1835

The CouRT

(nem. con.) was of opinion that the amount as well as value of the note ought to have been averred ; but that the description, “ one hundred silver coins of the value of seventy-five dollars,” was sufficiently certain, and therefore refused to arrest the judgment.

The prisoner was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years.