Supreme Court of Missouri June 15, 1834 (Mattison v. State)

M’Girk, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an indictment on the 43d section of the act' of the General Assembly respecting crimes and misdemeanors, which section is as follows : that if any person shall counterfeit, or cause or procure to be counterfeited, any of the species of the gold or silver coins now current, or hereafter to be current in this State, or shall pass or give