Newman v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of uttering and publishing, as true and genuine, a forged and fraudulent promissory note. The prosecution was upon an information, consisting of two-counts, the first, for the forgery of the note, the second, for uttering the same. The jury, by their verdict, found him guilty, as charged^ in the second count of the information. Of the questions presented, it is deemed necessary to notice but one, as a majority of the court are of the opinion that upon it alone a new trial must be granted. This assignment is, that the court erred in overruling…