State v. Brainard
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dlackhawh District Gowt. Uttering forged note : instructions : evidence. — The indictment alleges, that the defendant, on the 15th day of June, 1865, did utter and publish as true, a certain false, forged and.counterfeit promissory note, well knowing, etc., dated August 5, 1856, for $179, payable on demand to the defendant, and purporting to be signed by one Austin Brainard, as maker. From a judgment on a verdict of guilty, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Dillon, Ch. J.
The record presents, in some respects, a most remarkable cause. The only evidence against the *573defendant, save that of certain experts, was given by his two uncles and Ms own father. One of these uncles resides in "Wisconsin, the other in Massachusetts, and the father in Ohio. By some or all of these the prosecution was instituted, and all of them appeared voluntarily to testify against the defendant.
What motive led the father, on his own motion and without any compulsion, to come' from Ohio to Iowa to aid in the copviction of his son, does not appear in the record, and seems…
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