Bennett v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clay Circuit Court, Eastern District. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. At the February term, 1895, of the Craighead circuit court, Jonesboro district, the defendant, J. P. Bennett, was indicted for forgery. The case was removed on change of venue to the eastern district of Clay county, and at the January term thereof, 1896, defendant was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years and six months.
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Appeal from Clay Circuit Court, Eastern District. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. At the February term, 1895, of the Craighead circuit court, Jonesboro district, the defendant, J. P. Bennett, was indicted for forgery. The case was removed on change of venue to the eastern district of Clay county, and at the January term thereof, 1896, defendant was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years and six months. The indictment is as follows : “INDICTMENT. Craighead Circuit Court, Jonesboro District, February Term, 1895. State of Arkansas, v. J. P. Bennett.…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, J.,
(after stating the facts). There was no error in the judgment of the circuit court in overruling the demurrer to the indictment. It sufficiently charges the crime of forgery. It is not necessary to allege the mode in which the offense was committed, further than it is stated in this indictment; and it is not essential that the indictment should state that the forgery was committed by signing the name of another without his authority, in so many words. The charge that the defendant “did unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly, and feloniously and fraudulently make, write, forge, and…
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