People v. Meyer

Plaintiff in error, John C. Meyer, (hereinafter referred to as defendant,) was convicted in the circuit court of Ford county of the crime of forgery. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and overruled arid defendant was sentenced to the penitentiary.

Defendant conducted the only store at Garber, a grain station in Ford county, and also acted as agent for the American Hominy Company, a New Jersey corporation doing business in this State under the trade name of SuffernHunt Mills, with offices at Decatur, Illinois, and hereinafter referred to as employer. As such agent he…