State v. Greenwood
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was indicted in the district court for Olmsted county for forgery in the second degree, and demurred to the indictment on the grounds: (1) That the same did not state or specify any act or acts of defendant constituting the crime of forgery; (2) that the same did not state that the promissory note, therein alleged to be forged, was in writing; (3) that the same did not state any act or acts constituting the crime of forgery in any degree; and (4) that the facts…
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Defendant was indicted in the district court for Olmsted county for forgery in the second degree, and demurred to the indictment on the grounds: (1) That the same did not state or specify any act or acts of defendant constituting the crime of forgery; (2) that the same did not state that the promissory note, therein alleged to be forged, was in writing; (3) that the same did not state any act or acts constituting the crime of forgery in any degree; and (4) that the facts stated in the indictment did not state a public offense. The court,' Snow, J., overruled the demurrer, and on motion of…
1Opinion of the Court
BUCK, j.
The defendant, Greenwood, was indicted by the grand jury of the county of Olmsted of the offense of forgery. The indictment reads as follows:
“Ernest L. Greenwood is accused by the grand jury of the county of Olmsted, in the state of Minnesota, by this indictment, of the crime of forgery in the second degree, committed as follows: The said Ernest L. Greenwood, on the eighteenth day of December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, at the city of Eochester, in the county of Olmsted and state of Minnesota, with intent to defraud, did then and there falsely and feloniously…
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