Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the ITon. A. I). Sayre. The appellant in this case, Stephen Williams, ivas indicted, tried and convicted for forgery and sentenced to the penitentiary for three'years. The indictment was in the statutory form and set out the instrument alleged to have been forged in haec verba.
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the ITon. A. I). Sayre. The appellant in this case, Stephen Williams, ivas indicted, tried and convicted for forgery and sentenced to the penitentiary for three'years. The indictment was in the statutory form and set out the instrument alleged to have been forged in haec verba. This instrument was a check on the Bank of Montgomery for fifteen dollars signed by J. D. Johnson and made payable to the “order of Stephen Williams.” On the trial of the case, W. A. LaPrade, a witness for the State, testified that he obtained the instrument which…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
The indictment is in the Code form setting out the check in haec verba alleged to have been forged. Under it, a conviction may be had, for forging the name of the drawer of this check, although he may have been a fictitious person.—Thompson v. The State, 46 Ala. 16; The State v. Givens, 5 Ala. 747; 2 Arch. Cr. Pr. & Pl. 1585; 2 McClain’s Cr. Law, §§ 764, 792, 804.
That a forgery, as we have intimated, may' be committed by the false making of a written instrument in the name of a fictitious person is too well settled to admit of controversy.—Thompson v. The State, supra; The State v. Givens,…
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