State v. Shaw
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Kingman district court; PRESTON B. Gillett, judge. STATEMENT. IN this case the defendant, Edd Shaw, was arrested on a warrant which contained the charge “that on the -day of August, 1904, in Kingman county and state of Kansas, one Edd Shaw did unlawfully, feloniously forge, counterfeit and falsely make one certain written order for seventeen dollars, being and purporting to be signed by one J. H. Freeman and drawn on one E. S. Ratcliff, which order was made…
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Appeal from Kingman district court; PRESTON B. Gillett, judge. STATEMENT. IN this case the defendant, Edd Shaw, was arrested on a warrant which contained the charge “that on the -day of August, 1904, in Kingman county and state of Kansas, one Edd Shaw did unlawfully, feloniously forge, counterfeit and falsely make one certain written order for seventeen dollars, being and purporting to be signed by one J. H. Freeman and drawn on one E. S. Ratcliff, which order was made payable to said Edd Shaw and by him indorsed by writing on the back thereof the following words, to wit, ‘Edd Shaw,’ and by…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.:
That the instrument is a subject of forgery and that the information states sufficient facts are questions hardly open for discussion; The State v. Foster, 30 Kan. 365, 2 Pac. 628, and The State v. Lee, 32 Kan. 360, 4 Pac. 653, are decisive and seem to be in point.
The warrant upon which the defendant was arrested and upon which he was tendered a preliminary examination charged him with two crimes — the forging of the check, and the transfer of the same for a valuable consideration to Ben A. Blackwell, with intent to defraud.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. FosterSupreme Court of Kansas · 1883
- State v. LeeSupreme Court of Kansas · 1884
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