State v. Yerger
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. H. P» White, Judge. The indictment, omitting the formal part, is as follows : “ Feloniously did forge, counterfeit and falsely make a certain false, forged and counterfeit check, purporting to be made by Plankington, Armour & Co., a fictitious firm, and the said check purporting to be drawn on the Bank of Kansas City, a banking corporation duly organized according to the laws of the state of Missouri, which said false, forged and…
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. H. P» White, Judge. The indictment, omitting the formal part, is as follows : “ Feloniously did forge, counterfeit and falsely make a certain false, forged and counterfeit check, purporting to be made by Plankington, Armour & Co., a fictitious firm, and the said check purporting to be drawn on the Bank of Kansas City, a banking corporation duly organized according to the laws of the state of Missouri, which said false, forged and counterfeit check is of the tenor following: “$50.00 Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 19, 1883. “Bank ok Kansas City “ Pay to E. M.…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
— Under the provision of section 1406, Bevised Statutes, 1879, the defendant was indicted for forgery in the second degree, the act charged consisting in forging a check for fifty dollars, in the name of a fictitious firm. A second count in the indictment charged the defendant with uttering the forged check. Being tried, he was convicted on the first count and his punishment assessed at five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
I. The indictment is well enough and follows approved forms. 3 Chit. Crim. Law, 1048; 3 Greenl. Evid., sec. 104 ; State v. Kroeger, 48 Mo. 520; State w. Fisher, 65…
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