Lawless v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Ereob to review a judgment of the circuit court for Sauk county: R. G-. Siebeckee, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff in error was tried, convicted, and sentenced to state prison for uttering a forged cheek. The check as originally drawn was as follows: “IeoN CouNty BaNK. No. 84. “Crystal Palis, Mich., Aug. 5, 1901. “Pay to George Lowless or order $ 9.fifty cents .Dollars. C. T. Robeets.” The forgery consisted in putting the figure “5” before the figure “9” in the check.
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Ereob to review a judgment of the circuit court for Sauk county: R. G-. Siebeckee, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff in error was tried, convicted, and sentenced to state prison for uttering a forged cheek. The check as originally drawn was as follows: “IeoN CouNty BaNK. No. 84. “Crystal Palis, Mich., Aug. 5, 1901. “Pay to George Lowless or order $ 9.fifty cents .Dollars. C. T. Robeets.” The forgery consisted in putting the figure “5” before the figure “9” in the check. The plaintiff in error requested one Jacob Kiefer, a saloon keeper at Ableman, Wisconsin, to cash the check for him, telling him…
1Opinion of the CourtBakdeeN, J.
There was no motion for a new trial and no •exceptions to the charge. The only question for consideration is the one arising upon the denial of the motion to direct a verdict of acquittal, and upon the refusal of the court to instruct the jury as requested. That such questions are properly before us for consideration has been decided by this court in several cases. See Zahn v. M. & S. R. Co., ante, p. 38, 89 N. W. 889, and cases cited. The only ease to which our attention has been called seeming to hold a different rule is Reed v. Madison, 85 Wis. 667, 56 N. W. 182. In that case the motion…
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