R v Thomas Roberts
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 01 January 1842 |
Date | 01 January 1842 |
Court | High Court of Chancery |
English Reports Citation: 169 E.R. 103
LINCOLN's INN
S. C. Car. & M. 652.
2 MOOD. 250. REGINA V. THOMAS ROBERTS 103 1842 regina v. thomas roberts. (An indictment for forging an order for the payment of money, is not sustained by a forged letter requesting a person with whom the supposed writer had dealings to pay money, the balance being at the time against the writer ) [S. C. Car. & M. 652.] The prisoner was tried before the Lord Chief Justice Tmdal at the Summer Assizes for the county of Monmouth in the year 1842, upon an indictment for feloniously forging an order for payment of money, which forged order was set out in the first count as follows :- " Monmouth, June 9, 1842. " Mr Fisher. I should feel greatly obliged if you will please to send me by the bearer the sum of £3, as I have had a large quantity of bones this week, and the man from Coleforcl is coming in to-morrow with 10 cwt 1 have about one ton now. Yours, Mr. P. Fisher, Lanwanne. thos. davis " [259] With intent to defraud one John Edward Fisher, against the statute, &c. The instrument was described in all the succeeding counts generally as an order for the payment of money Upon the trial it appeared that the prisoner had written the letter, and forged the signature of Davis thereto, and that Fisher, on the faith of its being genuine, had paid the £3 to the bearer of the same It further appeared, that Davis was a waterman, living at Monmouth, who was in the habit of collecting bones throughout the adjoining country, and sending...
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