Michaels v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Peoria county upon an indictment charging him with forging a check in the name of• C. Schilling & Co., of •SanFrancisco, California, on the Third National Bank of ■ SanFrancisco," dated October 10, 1901, for $75, payable to the order of W. E. Hull.

The evidence tended to prove that on the date of the check a person representing himself to be Mr. Schilling, of Schilling & Co., of SanFrancisco, California, gave to William E. Hull, manager of Clarke’s distillery, at Peoria, an order for one hundred barrels of Clarke’s rye whisky, to be…