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PRUSSIAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 448.

282 U.S. 675 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 223

75 L.Ed. 610

PRUSSIAN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harold L. Turk, with whom Messrs. Sam Rosenwein, P.F. Seigenfeld, and Walter B. Milkman were on the brief, for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Sisson, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. Claude R. Branch and James A. Wharton, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, W. Marvin Smith, and Paul D. Miller were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Prussian, the petitioner, was convicted in the District Court for Eastern New York of forging an endorsement purporting to be that of a payee of a government draft. At the trial, by motions to dismiss and in arrest of judgment, the sufficiency of the indictment was challenged on the ground that the offense charged was the forging of an obligation of the United States in violation of § 148 of the Criminal Code...

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