Moore v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Sunflower county. Hon. Monroe McClurg, Judge. J. M. Moore was convicted of uttering a forged instrument and appeals.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Sunflower county. Hon. Monroe McClurg, Judge. J. M. Moore was convicted of uttering a forged instrument and appeals. Appellant was indicted for uttering a forged instrument, the language of the indictment being that the defendant “did unlawfully, fraudulently, and feloniously utter and publish as true to one C. T. Bookout, the said C. T. Bookout being then and there the county superintendent of public education of said Sunflower county in said state, a false, forged, and counterfeit instrument; the said instrument in writing being then and there what is…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
In order that forgery may be committed, the writing alleged to have been forged must be one which, if genuine, might injure another. In the case at bar, if the report alleged to have been forged had in fact been made by Lula A. Moore and certified to by the trustees, of the school, that is, if it had been in fact executed by the persons whose names are signed to it, and therefore a genuine writing, it would have conferred no power on the county officials to pay any one any money as compensation for having taught the school.
The only persons entitled to receive from the county superintendent of…
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