Hobbs v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Tried before lion. IT. C. Speak®. The indictment in this case charges Stephen Hobbs, defendant in the court below, appellant here, with the forgery of a written instrument, which, retaining the punctuation and style of copying found in the indictment, is as follows: “Huntsville — July Mr E 33 Carter, Please send me word how long you will give Stephen to pay for the bed, and if you will allow Irina time enough to pay for it let him have a…
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Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Tried before lion. IT. C. Speak®. The indictment in this case charges Stephen Hobbs, defendant in the court below, appellant here, with the forgery of a written instrument, which, retaining the punctuation and style of copying found in the indictment, is as follows: “Huntsville — July Mr E 33 Carter, Please send me word how long you will give Stephen to pay for the bed, and if you will allow Irina time enough to pay for it let him have a cheap bureau as cheap as possible and I will see that yon get so and oblige, much a week J W Wall, Huntsville Just write…
1Opinion of the Court
BKICKELL, 0. J.
1. The writing, if genuine, was not an authority for the sale of a bedstead, or of any other article than a bureau; yet, the sale and delivery of the bedstead and the bureau, and the presentment of the writing were in point of time coincident, forming parts of the same transaction. It may be, the fact of the sale of the bedstead was unessential and unimportant; but it would have been difficult, in a narration of the fact of the presentment of the writing, and of the use to which it was applied by the defendant, to avoid reference to it. "We can see no reason for separating the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Gassenheimer v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
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- Scott v. MyattSupreme Court of Alabama · 1854
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