Hanbury v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the city was a \person\ whose rights could be prejudiced under statute providing for punishment of any person who forged a writing \to the prejudice of another's right\
• finding that the city was a “person” whose rights could be prejudiced under statute providing for punishment of any person who forged a writing “to the prejudice of another’s right”
• noting that the defendant’s use of the forged rubber stamp “not only [had] a possibility that it would operate to the injury of the [victim], but in reality it did so operate”
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that the forged rubber stamp lacked apparent legal efficacy where it contained notable variations from the genuine stamp required for the sale of cigarettes
• counterfeit city tax stamp affixed to cigarette packages by cigarette vender operated to prejudice of city
• counterfeit city tax stamp affixed to cigarette packages by cigarette vender operated to prejudice of city

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).