State v. Alexander

On February 23, 1924, an information was filed in the district court of Wheatland county, in which the attempt was made to charge J. G. Alexander and Logan Fowell with the .crime of forgery. The trial court sustained a general demurrer, entered a judgment dismissing the information, and the state appealed.

The writing, the subject of the alleged forgery, is designated a traveler’s cheek, and it is charged that the Security State Bank of Judith Gap, Montana, had in its possession a number of these checks which it held in trust for the Bankers’ Trust Company of New York City with authority to…