IN CRIMINAL LAW, ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN ALL THE COURTS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. EDITED BY EDWARD W. COX, Esq., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, Barrister-at-Law. VOL. VI. 1852 to 1855. LONDON: JOHN CROCKFORD, LAW TIMES OFFICE, 29, ESSEX STREET, STRAND. CRIMINAL APPEAL CASES, before all the Judges, by A. BITTLESTON, Esq.; OXFORD CIRCUIT, by J. E. DAVIS, Esq.; HOME CIRCUIT, by B. C. ROBINSON, Esq.; NORTH WALES CIRCUIT, by ENEAS J. M'INTYRE, Esq.; Barristers-at-Law.. REPORTS OF Criminal Law Cases. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. May 29, 1852. (Before LORD CAMPBELL, C.J., JERVIS, C.J., POLLOCK, C.B., COLERIDGE, J., CRESSWELL, J., ERLE, J., TALFOURD, J., and CROMPTON, J.) REG. v. ION. (a) Forgery-Uttering-Receipt-Evidence. The A. applied to B. to lend him money, and gave him the name of the defendant as a surety. B. went to the defendant, and, to satisfy himself of his respectability, asked to see his receipts for rent and taxes. defendant placed in the hands of B., for his inspection, three documents purporting to be receipts for poor rates, with the intent to induce B. to advance money to A. One of these receipts was forged. B. inspected the documents and then returned them to the defendant: Held, that the defendant might be convicted within the 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4, c. 66, s. 10, of uttering a forged receipt, and that, for the purpose of rendering him liable, it was not necessary that the receipt should be used to get credit upon it by its operating as a receipt, but that it was sufficient if he used it fraudulently to obtain money by means of it: Held, also, that it was immaterial whether the money to be obtained by means of it was for himself or for any other person. THE HE following case was stated by the Recorder of London for the consideration of the judges: At a Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, holden for the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court in December, 1851, William Ion was tried before me upon an indictment for feloniously uttering, disposing of, and putting off a forged receipt for 2l. 4s., knowing, &c., with intent to defraud. It appeared in evidence (a) Reported by B. C. ROBINSON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law |