Martin v. State

BEATTY, Justice.

We granted the writ of certiorari to determine whether the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals had misapplied the law dealing with the misjoinder of offenses, Title 15, § 249, Alabama Code, and the law dealing with the effect upon a Code form indictment for first degree forgery of adding the endorsement upon the instrument.

The indictment under consideration is included in the opinion of that Court which concluded that the “addition of the endorsement [on the check] to the indictment in no way weakened its legal force or averments, and as such was proper.” In support of…