Lewis v. State

An information was filed against P. K. Lewis under the provisions of section 108, Penal Code of 1913, which reads as follows:

“108. Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered or recorded in any public office, within this state which instrument, if genuine, might be filed or registered, or recorded under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of felony.”

The nature of the instrument as set forth in the information was “ ... an application for a loan of money from those certain permanent funds of the state of Arizona,…