Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Choctaw. Tried before the Hon. Wm. E. Clarke. The defendant in this case was indicted for the forgery of a written instrument in these words: “I hereby waive to W. G. Bevill all my rights and immunities as landlord over Ed. Jackson’s crop of the present year, for all claims I have, or may have, against the said Ed. Jackson or Henry Williams, except one bale of cotton weighing five hundred pounds, that said Ed.
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From the Circuit Court of Choctaw. Tried before the Hon. Wm. E. Clarke. The defendant in this case was indicted for the forgery of a written instrument in these words: “I hereby waive to W. G. Bevill all my rights and immunities as landlord over Ed. Jackson’s crop of the present year, for all claims I have, or may have, against the said Ed. Jackson or Henry Williams, except one bale of cotton weighing five hundred pounds, that said Ed. J ackson will owe me as land rent, and twenty-five dollars that he will owe me as mule rent for the present year. June 13th, 1888. I holds no claime' on Ed.…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
Certain writings — a promissory note, or bill of exchange, for illustration — import on their face the creation of a pecuniary liability. So of many other written instruments, if they import legal validity. That’is, if the' writing shows on its face, without reference to extrinsic facts, that, if genuine, it creates, discharges, increases or diminishes a money liability, or transfers or incumbers property, or surrenders or impairs an existing valid claim to, or lien on property, then the false making of such written instrument, with intent to defraud, is, without more, forgery, and will…
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