Biles v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia. This was an indictment for forgery, at common law, wherein-Edwin R. Biles, the defendant, was charged with having made a false and forged entry in the journal of Hoskins, Hieskell & Co., with intent to defraud the said .firm.
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Error to the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia. This was an indictment for forgery, at common law, wherein-Edwin R. Biles, the defendant, was charged with having made a false and forged entry in the journal of Hoskins, Hieskell & Co., with intent to defraud the said .firm. The defendant was for several years the confidential clerk and book-keeper-of Hoskins, Hieskell & Co., and had the entire charge of their books, and of the cash received in their business, until it was deposited in bank. The forgery charged in the indictment was perpetrated by the false addition of the items of cash received…
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Read, J. —
The defendant was the confidential clerk and bookkeeper of Hoskins, Hieskell & Co., and he was indicted and convicted of having made a false and forged entry in the journal of the said firm, with intent to defraud his said employers. The forgery consisted in a false addition of one figure in the amount of cash received from bills receivable, in the month of August 1856, and in the alteration of another true figure in said addition. The true addition was $6455.63, while the false addition was $5955.63, the first figure 5 being an alteration of…
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