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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Decision reversed. --Sometime since, Isaac Jacobs was tried before the Hustings Court on the charge of obtaining fifteen hundred dollars under false pretences from Nathan Bernstein. His offence consisted in furnishing forged passports to Bernsrginia; and the jury who tried the case sentenced him to two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this decision, Jacobs took an appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals, sitting at that time at Coyner's Springs in Botetourt county, Virginia, w assigning the following as their reasons for doing so: "That although the indictment found by the Hustings Court against Jacobs alleges that he did feloniously and falsely pretend that he could and would furnish Bernstem with a lawful passport to sandictment does not sufficiently explain what is meant by the term lawful passport to enable the Court judicially to know the nature and character of the instrument which it is alleged he (Jacobs) falsely pretended that he could and would furnish. "