State v. F.G. Andrew

Defendant has appealed from a conviction of the crime of uttering and passing a forged contract, wherein his punishment was assessed by the jury in the Criminal Court of Jackson County at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for four years.

The second amended information, upon which defendant was tried, was drawn in two counts. The first count charged the forgery of the instrument alleged in the .second count to have been uttered by defendant. The trial court submitted the case upon the second count; hence the first count need not be further noticed. It is necessary to set out the second…