John Henry Aikles proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 44221545. , you was indicted at a former sessions, for falsely making, forging, and counterfeiting a promisory note, bearing date, the 18th of December, 1786, the tenor of which is,

"London,

"December the 18th, 1788. Three

"months after date, I promise to pay to

"H. Byron, Esq; or order, twenty-five

"pounds ten shillings," with intent to defraud Robert Harvey Gedge, against the statute. The circulation of this note was very fully proved by evidence, and the party going to the place of your supposed dwelling, that you answered to the name of John Mason, and said, that note was your making: the Judges have been consulted on your case, and they are ofopinion, that under the particular circumstances that occurred thereon in evidence, the indictment was not maintainable; therefore the judgment must be staid ; but it is necessary for me to remind you, that the course of life you have led is likely to bring you to an untimely end. You are to be remanded under your former sentence.