State v. Sylistan

The defendant was tried and convicted on an indictment for forging and uttering an order for $6 on the Southern Advance Bag & Paper Company, Inc. Prom the conviction and sentence imposed in consequence thereof, the present appeal was applied for and granted. The case was submitted without brief or argument on behalf of the state.

The defendant in the course of the trial reserved four bills of exception, setting: up reversible error. We find one of these bills well founded, so that it becomes unnecessary to consider the others.

After the jury was sworn, the district attorney moved to amend the…