Legal Opinion
State v. Fay
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided June 15, 1900No. Nos. 12,212—(260)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Defendant was convicted in the district court for Itasca county of forgery in the second degree, whereupon the court, Holland, J., at his request certified to the supreme court for its determination the question whether the indictment stated facts sufficient to constitute a public offense.
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted at the January term, 1900, of the district court in and for the county of Itasca, of the crime of uttering a certain forged instrument. The charging part of the indictment reads as follows:
“The said Matt Fay on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1899, at the village of Deer River, in the county of Itasca and state of Minnesota, did then and there wilfully, wrongfully, unlawfully, and feloniously, with intent to defraud one F. D. Coleman, utter, offer, and dispose of to said F. D. Coleman, as true, a forged instrument in writing, the false…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- State v. GoodrichSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
- State v. RiebeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
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