State v. Ford

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The accused appeals from a conviction for forgery and asks a reversal of judgment and sentence on the ground that “ the State did not prove on the trial that McKellar was indebted to Frier-son, or that Frierson was a creditor of McKellar.”

The indictment sets out that the name of S. J. Frierson was forged to an order for $85 in money, which the accused wilfully, falsely and fraudulently forged, counterfeited, uttered, published, aud put off as genuine; and which was presented to R. N. McKellar— on whom said *798order was drawn — for payment, with…