Atwood v. State

Ethéidge, J.

(dissenting).

I think the present decision is in conflict with Carlisle v. Gunn, 68 Miss. 243, 8 So. 743. If there is a line of demarcation, it is exceedingly dim. I think that the administering of an oath with all the impressiveness of formality is a much safer practice than merely the signing of a person’s name to a paper.

The mischief growing out of the práctice of an affiant and an officer merely signing their names to a writing is well illustrated in Case v. People, 76 N. Y. 242, where affiant signed his name to a paper and sent it by a servant to a notary public, who signed…