State v. Hatfield

— The defendant was convicted upon an information charging him with uttering a forged deed. This appeal followed.

The court instructed the jury as follows:

“You are instructed that the mere uttering, as heretofore explained to you, is of itself a circumstance from which knowledge of its falsity may he presumed. I mean by that, if you find from the evidence that this particular deed described in the information was forged; that is, falsified, and you further find that it was uttered by the defendant, then you have a right to presume from these facts that he knew that it was forged at the time of…