State v. Toombs

An indictment was returned in the Circuit Court of City of St. Louis, charging that defendant, while president of the International Life Insurance Company, caused to be signed, with felonious intent to issue the same, in violation of Section 3350, Revised Statutes 1919, a certificate for three thousand shares of stock in that corporation, not authorized by the charter and by-laws. On a jury trial he was found guilty, April 13, 1929, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $3,000 and imprisonment for three years in the penitentiary. Appeal to this court followed.

The indictment places the…