State v. Maas

The opinion of the Court was delivered hy

Manning, J.

Prom a conviction of forgery and sentence to hard labour the defendant appeals and assigns as error that the court overruled Ms motion in arrest of judgment, made on the grounds that the indictment failed to set out the facts or acts which constituted the crime of forgery, and that the forgery charged was of a cheque or bill of exchange which he alleges is duplicity in pleading.

Our statutes have wisely liberalised criminal pleadings in the interests of public justice without abridging the protection of innocent persons accused of crime. The…