People v. Van Alstine
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions from Hillsdale. (Howell, J.) Information for forgery. Respondent was convicted below. A valid count will sustain a verdict: People v. McKinney 10 Mich. 54; Shannon v. People 5 Mich. 71 ; and the information will not be quashed though other counts are bad: Com. v. Hawkins 3 Gray 464; it is discretionary to require an election among counts : 1 Archb. Or. Pr.
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Exceptions from Hillsdale. (Howell, J.) Information for forgery. Respondent was convicted below. A valid count will sustain a verdict: People v. McKinney 10 Mich. 54; Shannon v. People 5 Mich. 71 ; and the information will not be quashed though other counts are bad: Com. v. Hawkins 3 Gray 464; it is discretionary to require an election among counts : 1 Archb. Or. Pr. (8th ed.) 295 ; Jennings v. Com. 17 Pick. 80; United States v. Furlong 5 Wh. 184; photographic copies are admissible in cases of forgery: Whart. Ev. § 133; Com. v. Jeffries 7 Allen 561; Foster's Appeal 34 Mich. 21; Marcy v.…
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
The respondent, Charles Yan Alstine, was convicted in the circuit court for the county of Hillsdale upon an information charging him, jointly with Charles A. Parker and Edward C. Cleveland, with the forging and uttering of a deed of forty acres of land, lying in the township of Somerset, in Hillsdale county.
The deed purported to be executed by Eleanor Yan Alstine, in the presence of Parker and Cleveland, and acknowledged by the grantor before Parker, as a notary public of Lenawee county. It bears date the 9th day of May, 1876. The legal title to the land at the date of the deed was in Eleanor…
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