State v. Jarrell

POFEENBARGER, JUDGE:

The indictment charges that Jarrell forged, uttered and attempted to employ as true with intent to defraud, an- order which it avers to have been in the words and figures following: “G. B. Hensley, Express Agent, Madison, W. Va. Please deliver my express package to Benjamin Jarrell and oblige. Oscar Coon,” and charges the package was of- the value of $3.00. On it, he was convicted and sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary of the State for a period of two years.

Failure of proof of the tenor of the order as alleged is the principal ground of the complaint on the writ…