Graves v. State

Lorenzo Graves was indicted and tried in the circuit court of Jefferson Davis county on a charge of uttering a forgery, and was sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary. The following pertinent facts are stated:

On December 9, 1926, Lorenzo Graves and another negro appeared in the store of C. J. Jones, near Prentiss, Miss., and together they bought a hill of goods, amounting to four dollars and twenty cents, appellant proffering in payment of this bill of goods a certain check drawn for nine dollars and eighty cents on the Bank of Collins, and purporting to have been…