State v. Anderson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

The defendant, having been convicted of the crime *558hereinafter set forth, was sentenced to two years’ confinement in the Penitentiary, from which he has appealed.

The offence charged in the information is, that he did falsely and feloniously utter and publish as true a certain altered, false, forged and counterfeited public record, to wit: The returns from the parish of Yernon of an election held for Presidential electors, in the State of Louisiana, on the seventh day of November, 1876, as shewn by the original returns of said election made…