Hall v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

Conviction was for forgery in the second degree. The indictments, in code form, charged the defendants with forgery of the appearance bond appearing in the report of the case and, in the alternative, with the uttering of said forged bond.

The bond, copied in haec verba in the indictments, was unsigned by the principal, Gast, and the first argument for error is that such an instrument, without the signature of the principal, Gast, was on its face a nullity, the forgery and passing of which constituted no crime. Demurrers asserting this were overruled by the trial court. Of…