State v. Beasley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Fayette District Court. — Hon. L. O. Hatch, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of uttering and publishing as true a certain false, forged, and counterfeit promissory note; he then and there knowing the same to be false, forged, and counterfeit. His motion for new trial being overruled, judgment of imprisonment in the penitentiary was pronounced against him, from which judgment he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
I. We have examined the transcript upon which this case is submitted with care, and find 1. Criminal law: alibi: proof. nothing suggestive of prejudicial errors. 0yier than those presented by the appellant’s counsel in their argument of the case. There is no question but that the promissory note set out in the indictment is a forgery, and that it was uttered and published as true to one David Bell at West Union, Pay-ette county, Iowa, on the 20th day of April, 1889, and that the party passing it as true represented himself to *85be the payee of the note. Sncb representation is sufficient…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- State v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1881
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- State v. WiseSupreme Court of Iowa · 1891
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- State v. WoodsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1875
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