U.S. v. ROSS

Nos. 87-5057, 87-5059.

844 F.2d 187 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Keith ROSS, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Kevin SILVER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Paul Lindsay, Asheville, N.C., for defendants-appellants.

Kenneth Davis Bell (Thomas J. Ashcraft, U.S. Atty., Jerry W. Miller, Asst. U.S. Atty., Asheville, N.C., Cenie E. Alexander, Paralegal Specialist, on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RUSSELL, PHILLIPS and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether a black and white photocopy of the face of a United States one dollar bill when inserted into a coin change machine to obtain United States coins is "a counterfeit obligation of the United States" within the purview of Title 18 Sections 4711 and 4722 of the United States Code. We conclude that such a crude reproduction of only one side of...

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