Coy

On March 20, 1923, an indictment was returned in the United States District Corut for the Northern Division of the Northern District of California against six defendants, including one John Coy, charging a conspiracy to willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously make, forge, and counterfeit, and cause and procure to be made, forged, and counterfeited, and to willingly aid and assist in falsely making, forging, and counterfeiting, certain notes in imitation of and purporting to be in imitation of the circulating notes issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Cal., that is to say, Federal Reserve notes of the denomination of $20, in violation of section 149 of the Criminal Code (Comp. St. § 10319) ; and a conspiracy to willfully, unlawfully, knowingly, and feloniously keep in their possession, with intent to defraud, the same forged and counterfeited obligations, in violation of section 151 of the Criminal Code (Comp. St. § 10321). The indictment then charged that in furtherance of the conspiracy and to effect the object thereof, one of the defendants, other than Coy, on March 6, 1923, at San Francisco, had in his possession, in a safe deposit box, 450 of the false, forged,…