Bliss v. United States
Citation | 105 F. 508 |
Decision Date | 19 December 1900 |
Docket Number | 337. |
Parties | BLISS v. UNITED STATES. |
Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (1st Circuit) |
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
Clarence B. Loud, for plaintiff in error.
Boyd B Jones, U.S. Atty., and John H. Casey, Asst. U.S. Atty.
Before COLT and PUTNAM, Circuit Judges, and WEBB, District Judge.
There are five errors assigned in this case, but all raise the same question. This indictment was found under the first section of the act of May 16, 1884, c. 52 (23 Stat. 22), and charges the plaintiff in error with aiding and assisting one Davis in counterfeiting notes of the dominion of Canada, intended to circulate as money. Davis was indicted jointly with him, and pleaded guilty. The substance of the propositions submitted to us is as follows:
That Davis counterfeited a number of dominion of Canada notes, all of the same series, and bearing consecutive numbers in that series; that he had previously been convicted and sentenced for counterfeiting like Canada notes of apparently the same series, but not the same covered by the present indictment that the notes on which the former conviction was based were printed from the same plates as those now in issue, but at a different time; that, in law, the entire matter, covering all the notes, was a continuous one, so that it could not be served and made the basis of several criminal proceedings and that the prior conviction could, therefore, have been pleaded by Davis in bar of this indictment, thus rendering it void, and consequently void as against Bliss as his aider and abettor.
The plaintiff in error cites no authority which sustains his propositions, and points out no rule of law which will guide us to his conclusions in the lack of authorities. On the other hand, the law is clear that, on the state of facts which this record shows, the counterfeiting of notes at different times, although all apparently of the same series and printed from the same plate, constitutes distinct offenses. This is a self-evident proposition, but, if it needed any support, we find it in U.S. v. Randenbush, 8 Pet. 288, 8 L.Ed. 948, in which two separate convictions for passing two counterfeit notes of the Bank of the United States of the same denomination were sustained. The rules of the common law in this particular, and the reasons for them become apparent by comparing this...
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