1 D.C. 369
District of Columbia District Court
Decided December 15, 1806
District of Columbia District Court · decided 1806-12-15
Indictment, upon the Maryland Statute of 1793, c. 35, for stealing bank-notes, charging the prisoner with stealing the “ notes of some bank established by a charter from the government of the United States or of some individual State of the United States.” prayed the Court to instruct the jury that they must be satisfied, by the evidence, that the notes were of some bank having a charter from the United States, or from some particular State; that the act of incorporation, or…
Decided 1806-12-15
¶1(nem. con.) was of opinion that the supplementary *370act of April, 1792, c. 1, making it felony to steal the notes of the Bank of Baltimore, makes the original act of incorporation (1790, c. 5,) a public statute. '
¶2Verdict, guilty. But, upon motion,
¶3The Court arrested the judgment, because the indictment did hot state of what particular bank the stolen notes were, nor whether the bank was incorporated by the United States, or by a particular State.