State v. Cordaro

The indictment charged that the defendant did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously utter and publish a forged instrument, with intent then and there to defraud, in that:

“The said Joe Cordaro, on or about the 17th day of December, A. D. 1924, in the county of Polk in the state of Iowa, having in his possession a certain instrument, — to wit, a check with an indorsement thereon purporting to be that of one Orpha Link, — said indorsement being false and forged, and said defendant knowing the same to be false and forged, said check and indorsement being in words and figures as follows, to wit:

“C…