State v. Sotak

Lively, Judge:

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted of forging a check for $3,000 on the First National Bank of Fairmont, dated March 28, 1925, by signing the name of Mike Dzula thereto jointly with his own name, the check being payable to the Black Diamond Coal Company, and by it endorsed by M. H. Hill (defendant) and to the credit of which company the proceeds were placed. Defendant was sentenced to the penitentiary for six years, and he prosecutes error. The indictment charged him with forging and also with uttering the check, knowing it to be forged.

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