State v. Shepard

The defendant has abandoned all assignments of error except those which relate to his plea of former jeopardy. He was first placed on trial on indictments each charging (1) that he forged a check issued by Rea Construction Company, payable to Charles Y. Norris; and (2) that he uttered the check knowing it to have been forged. At the trial in April the evidence disclosed the checks were genuine but that the defendant had forged the name of the payee. Upon this disclosure the trial judge, of his own motion, quashed the indictments and instructed the Solicitor to send new bills charging forgery…