State v. Davis
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court^ Raleigh County. I. W. Davis was convicted on an indictment containing several counts charging forgery, his motion for a new trial and an arrest of judgment, made after verdict and before sentence, was denied, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyuch, Judge:
An indictment found and returned a-t the October, 1917, term of the criminal court of Raleigh County, in the first count charged defendant with the forgery of a certain paper writing purporting to release a deed of trust, and in the second with having the forged paper in his possession and attempting to *186utter and employ it as if it were genuine and lawful. In each count there is an averment of the felonious execution of the instrument and felonious use made of it. But - the' only attempt to describe and explain it appears in the 'instrument itself as copied in the indictment in…
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