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Baender v. Barnett, 255 U.S. 224 (1921)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Baender v. Barnett, 255 U.S. 224 (1921)
Baender v. Barnett No. 614 Argued January 11, 1921 Decided February 28, 1921 255 U.S. 224
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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1. Criminal Code § 169, declaring that whoever, without lawful authority, shall have in possession any die in the likeness or similitude of a die designated for making genuine coin of the United States shall be punished, is not intended to make criminal a possession which is not conscious and willing. P. 225.
2. A statute defining a crime in general terms should be so construed as to avoid manifest injustice and possible unconstitutionality. Id.
3. In appropriate, if not necessary, support of the power to coin and regulate the value of money (Const. Art. I, § 8, cl. 5), Congress has power to penalize the conscious and willing possession of dies, as in Crim.Code, § 169. P. 226.
4. The clause relating to the punishment of counterfeiting securities and coin (Const. Art. I, § 8, cl. 6) is not a limitation upon the power to protect the coinage. Id.
Affirmed.
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MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Baender v. Barnett, 255 U.S. 224 (1921), in 255 U.S. 224, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=7RMNY287X29CMVC.
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