Langdon v. People

This is an indictment, returned against the plaintiff in error by the grand jury of Kankakee County at the September term of the Circuit Court of that county, for the forgery of the signature of a public officer. Upon the trial in the court below the prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to the penitentiary.

Section 113 of Division 1 of the criminal code of this State (Starr & C. Ann. Sfcat. page 786) provides that “every person who shall s * * forge or counterfeit the signature of any public officer * * * shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than twenty years.”