State v. . Bailey

The indictment charges the defendant with the forging, with intent to defraud, a certain written receipt, purporting to be an acknowledgment of the payment of money upon a debt due by him, in form as follows:

"Rec'd of W. T. Bailey eight hundred dollars on land, to be credited on his land note, this 15 May, 1883.

"Mr. Walton accept this. A. D. GAGE."

The defendant was tried upon his plea of not guilty at Fall (529) Term, 1887, of the Superior Court of Iredell, and convicted by the verdict of the jury.

From the judgment of the court sentencing him to imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor…