United States v. Abel Turner

CERTIFICATE of Division from the Circuit Court of North Carolina. The defendant, Abel Turner, was indicted at May term 1832, in the circuit court, under the 18th section of the act incorporating the Bank of the United States, passed in April 1816. The indictment contained four counts. The first count charged the defendant with having forged and counterfeited a bill or note issued by the orders of the president, directors and company of the Bank of the United States, the tenor of which said false, forged and counterfeited paper writing was as follows, to wit: 'The president, directors and company of the Bank of the United States promise to pay twenty dollars, on demand, at their office of discount and deposit, in Fayetteville, to the order of D. Anderson, cashier thereof–Philadelphia, the 4th of July 1827–John W. Sandford, cashier, John Huske, president'–with intent to defraud the president, directors and company of the Bank of the United States, against the form of the act of congress, &c. The second count charged the defendant with an attempt to pass the said note, describing it in the same form, knowing it to be forged, with intent to defraud the Bank of the United States. The third count charged the offence of passing, uttering and publishing the same note, with intent to defraud the bank. The fourth and fifth counts charged the defendant with an attempt to pass, and with having passed the note to one Elliott, with intent to defraud him. The note was described in the counts in the same form and terms as in the first count. The jury found the defendant guilty on the fourth and fifth counts, and not guilty as to the residue.