State v. Vineyard
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District, Silver Bow Coimty. Conviction for forgery. Defendant was tried before Speer, J. A person commits forgery who, personating another, fraudulently, writes his name. (Bishop’s Criminal Law, Vol. 2, § 585.) Where a check comes into the hands of a person, who knows that it is not intended for him and that person endorses it with the fraudulent purpose of getting the money, he is guilty of forgery.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District, Silver Bow Coimty. Conviction for forgery. Defendant was tried before Speer, J. A person commits forgery who, personating another, fraudulently, writes his name. (Bishop’s Criminal Law, Vol. 2, § 585.) Where a check comes into the hands of a person, who knows that it is not intended for him and that person endorses it with the fraudulent purpose of getting the money, he is guilty of forgery. (United States v. Long, 30 Fed. 678 — 80; Ltcmchy. State, 51 N. W. (Neb.) 755; Bishop Crim. Law, Vol. 2, § 587.) The fact that the name forged is misspelled makes no…
1Opinion of the Court
Hunt. J.
Phillip P. Vineyard, the appellant, was con*139victed of the crime of forgery, and sentenced to one year in the state’s prison. From the judgment of conviction he appeals.
The information under which he was tried charges that said Vineyard “did willfully and unlawfully and feloniously and falsely and fraudulently, forge, utter, pass, and publish, as true and genuine, to one John Stromberg and one Jerry Mullins, a copartnership doing business under the firm name and style of Mullins & Stromberg, in Butte City, in said county and state, a certain writing on paper and check for the payment of…
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