State v. Adams

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poci-ié, J.

Appealing from a conviction of uttering a forged order for the payment of money, and a sentence of five years in the penitentiary the defendant submits two grounds of complaint:

1st. A refusal of a new trial prayed for on the ground of newly-discovered evidence, which is alleged to be the testimony of a witness, ■who would swear that in his presence and hearing, the accused was entrusted by another person with the collection of the order which lie did not know to he forged.

If such is the fact, the accused must have been aware of it from the…