McClellan v. State

Harrison, J.:

The. appellant Avas indicted in two eases for forgery, and also for uttering the forged instrument.

The indictment in the first case, after the caption, was as follows:

The Grand Jury of Pulaski County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse Carter McClellan of the crime of forgery, committed as follows, viz: The said Carter McClellan, on the 20th of July, 1876, in the county and State aforesaid, unlawfully contriving to defraud L. Valmer & Co., then and there did felonously forge a writing purporting to be an order of one Richard Hudgins, which forged…