Trask v. People

This was an indictment for forgery. In some of the counts the defendant, Edward A. Trask, was charged with fraudulently and feloniously making a certain bill for the payment of money, while in other counts it was charged that the defendant fraudulently and feloniously did pass, utter and publish a certain fictitious bill, and other instrument of writing, for the payment of money, etc. On a. trial before a jury the defendant was found guilty, and the court, after overruling a motion for a new trial, rendered judgment on the verdict. The defendant was indicted on the 2d day of March, 1892; on…