R v Alexander Blenkinsop

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1850
Date01 January 1850
CourtHigh Court

English Reports Citation: 175 E.R. 220

QUEEN'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS AND EXCHEQUER

Regina
and
Alexander Blenkinsop

Subsequent proceedings with annotation, 1 Den. 276.

[531] Yorkshire Assizes, before Mr. Justice Coleridge. regina v. alexander blenkinsop. (A. desired William Wilkinson, a mechanic in his service at Leeds, at weekly wages, to write his name across a blank stamp, which he did. A. wrote on it a bill of exchange for 148Z. 7s. 9d., drawn on " Mr. William Wilkinson, Halifax," and A. wrote over the acceptance, " Payable at Smith, Payne, & Co , Bankers, London." A. intended, at the time the acceptance was written, to make the drawing to be on a Mr. William Wilkinson, of Halifax, there being persons of that name resident there, but none of whom had given him any authority to draw:-Held forgery.) [Subsequent proceedings with annotations, 1 Den. 276 ] Forgery -The first count of the indictment charged that the prisoner, on &c , at &c., " feloniously did forge a certain bill of exchange, to wit, a biU of exchange for the payment of one hundred and forty-eight pounds, seven shillings, and mnepence, then and there, with intent thereby to defraud one William Williams Brown, and others." Second count, that he having in his custody and possession a forged bill [described as before], uttered it with the same intent, scienter The third count charged the forging of the acceptance of a certain other bill with the same intent. The fourth count charged an uttering of the acceptance with the same intent. The fifth count charged the uttering of the acceptance, setting out the bill thus :- that authority, and if he choose to alter it, the crime of forgery is committed. If the blank cheque was delivered to him with a limited authority to complete it, and he fifled it up with an amount different from the one he was directed to insert ; and, if after the authority was at an end, he filled it up with any amount whatsoever, that too would be clearly forgery." And Mr. Justice Patteson said, '' 1 quite agree with my learned Brother, that if the prisoner filled up the cheque with a different amount and for different purposes than those which his authority warranted, the crime of forgery would be undoubtedly made out." 2 CAB. *K. 532. EEGINA V. BLENKINSOP 221 " Leeds, October 22nd, 1847. "No . £148 7s 9d. *' Three months after date pay to myself, or order, the sum of one hundred and forty-eight pounds, seven shillings, and ninepence Value received. " alexander...

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