State v. Havens

These are appeals on questions of law from judgments of conviction of the defendants of forgery. In case No. 474, the defendant, Olin M. Havens, was indicted and convicted' for uttering a false, forged and counterfeited check with intent to defraud. In case No., 475, the defendant, Mary Y. Havens, wife of Olin M. Havens, was convicted under an indictment charging that she falsely made, forged and counterfeited a check with intent to defraud.

The evidence tended to show that Mary Havens signed her own name to a check upon a bank in which she had no funds or even a deposit account, and that her…