Case No. 16,616.

UNITED STATES v. VENABLE.
UNITED STATES v. BROOKE.

[1 Cranch, C. C. 417.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

July Term, 1807.

PASSING COUNTERFEIT MONEY—ACQUITTAL—BOND FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR.

After acquittal upon a charge of passing counterfeit money, “in payment,” the court will not order the prisoners to give security for then good behavior, although it should appear in evidence that they had uttered false money, as true.

Mr. Jones, attorney for the United States, moved the court, that the prisoners [Venable and Brooke], who had been acquitted of passing counterfeit money, “in payment,” under the act of Virginia of December 19, 1792, should be ordered to give security for their good behavior, it having appeared in evidence that they had uttered counterfeit money, but not “in payment.”

Motion overruled. DUCKETT, Circuit Judge, absent.

[See Case No. 16,615.]

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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