Agee v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Indictment for Forgery. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilcox. The appellant was tried and convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment, Reuben Agee, with the intent to injure or defraud, did falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit an instrument in writing, in words and figures, substantially, as follows: ‘Oct the 18, 1895. Lamison, Ala. Mr. J. T. Dumas. Dear Sir.
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Indictment for Forgery. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilcox. The appellant was tried and convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment, Reuben Agee, with the intent to injure or defraud, did falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit an instrument in writing, in words and figures, substantially, as follows: ‘Oct the 18, 1895. Lamison, Ala. Mr. J. T. Dumas. Dear Sir. Please lete King Jackson trade nine dollars $975 cents nine dollars 75 cents to bee chird to E. 0. Raines on merchandise,’ meaning thereby to write an…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The indictment was not open to the objection taken by the demurrer. The instrument alleged to have been falsely made was, as set out in the indictment along with the averment of the intention of the party making the paper, and its effect, ‘ ‘a writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal evidence or the foundation of a legal liability.”-Rembert v. State, 53 Ala. 467.
The instrument set out in the indictment is an order on J. T. Dumas in favor of King Jackson for goods. It directs the bill for the goods to be charged to E. O. Raines “on merchindise.” The instrument offered in…
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