Legal Opinion

Santolini v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided November 19, 1895PublishedCited by 16 opinions

ERROR to the District Court for the County of Sweet-water, Hon. Jesse Knight, Judge. The plaintiff in error was informed against under Section 924 of the Rev. Stat., 1887. The charging part of the information was as follows: “That Felice San-“tolini * * * on the thirteenth day of September, “A. D. 1894, at and in the county aforesaid did feloniously •‘.‘pass as true and genuine to John Slaviero a certain “forged bank check, purporting to be the check of G. W. “Edwards,…

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ERROR to the District Court for the County of Sweet-water, Hon. Jesse Knight, Judge. The plaintiff in error was informed against under Section 924 of the Rev. Stat., 1887. The charging part of the information was as follows: “That Felice San-“tolini * * * on the thirteenth day of September, “A. D. 1894, at and in the county aforesaid did feloniously •‘.‘pass as true and genuine to John Slaviero a certain “forged bank check, purporting to be the check of G. W. “Edwards, payable to the order of William Colbers for the “sum of forty-five dollars, he, the said Felice Santolini at “the time he…

1Opinion of the Court

Groesbeck, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff in error was convicted pf the crime of forgery in the district court for Sweetwater County, and on October 12, 1894, was sentenced thereunder to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for the term of four years. The uttering of forged paper knowing it to be forged with intent to defraud is denominated forgery by our statute, and is included in the statutory definition of the crime. The information, after laying the venue and alleging the time and place of the commission of the offense, charges that the defendant below “did feloniously pass, as true and…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. CostelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
  2. Langdon v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
  3. People v. MunroeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1893
  4. Harding v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1876
  5. People v. FickCalifornia Supreme Court · 1891

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Muhammad v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1991
  2. Marshall v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1927
  3. People v. WilmotIllinois Supreme Court · 1912
  4. People v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Colorado · 1912
  5. State v. ChildersOregon Supreme Court · 1897

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