State v. Tompkins

Sherwood, O. J.

The defendant was indicted for forgery in the first degree, for forging a certificate of a recorder on a deed of trust, and on trial had was found guilty, and his punishment assessed at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The section under which the indictment was found provides that, “every person who shall forge or' counterfeit * * aiiy certificate or indorsement of the filing'or recording of any such will, deed or other instrument, which, by law, may be recorded, or purporting to have been made by an officer authorized to make such certificate or indorsement, with…