Girdley v. State

The plaintiff in error has been convicted under Section 6597, Thompson’s-Shannon’s Code, providing that: “Whoever fraudulently passes or transfers, or offers to pass or transfer, any forged paper, knowing' it to be forged, with intent to defraud another, is guilty of a felony.” He was given a penitentiary sentence of four years and has appealed in error to this court.

The first assignment of error questions the action • of the trial judge in overruling a motion to quash the indictment. The prosecution was based on a forged check and the indictment charged the defendant below with offering to…