Tennessee Supreme Court April 15, 1859 (Trice v. State)

McKinney, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The prisoner was indicted and convicted, in the Criminal Court of Memphis, under the 32d section of the penal code, for fraudulently keeping in his possession the counterfeit resemblance, or imitation, of a bank note, of the denomination of ten dollars, of “ The Merchants’ Bank of Nashville, State of Tennessee,” — “ a corporation established by