State v. . Weaver

The defendant was indicted for forging a certain bond, of which the tenor is given, as follows:

“By the fifteenth of November next I promise to pay John Carter fifteen dollars as witness my hand and seal this 24th day of September 1839.

Alx’e. Beadlby [l. s.]”—

with the intent to defraud one Alx’r. Bradley. On the trial, the instrument was produced and evidence given, that Alexander Bradley executed it, as a bond bearing date the 24th of September, 1838, and that he afterwards made a payment on it and took Carter’s receipt therefor, expressed in part of his bond, describing it therein as bear…