McKinney v. State

The appellant was indicted for forgery, and was tried and convicted on the theory that he was an accessory before the fact of the forging of a check by Worthy Bolton, a negro girl, who was the chief witness for the state. She testified that the appellant offered her two hundred dollars to go away with him; that he had one hundred dollars in money, which he gave to her, and produced a check on the Bank of Batesville which he told her would have to bear the signature of R. W. Towles, because they lived on Towle’s place, and under the direction of the appellant she made out the check and signed…