Commonwealth v. Bowman

At the April term, 1894, of the Pendleton Circuit Court, the grand jury of Pendleton county indicted the appellee Bowman for forging and altering a promissory note, committed in manner and form as follows : “The said Stonewall Bowman, on the-day of December, 1892, in the county and State aforesaid and before the finding of this indictment, did falsely, knbwingly, fraudulently and feloniously and, with the wicked design to defraud, forge and alter an instrument purporting to be the promissory note of W. Y. Morris and Jas. J. Brown for ten dollars, dated December 26, 1892, and payable to the…