Abston v. State

Mu.. Chief Justice Neil

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiffs in error were arraigned and tried in the circuit court of Putnam county, under an indictment containing two counts. The first charged them with forging a deed purporting to have been signed by one Sam Eastland, and the second with passing this instrument, to the prejudice of the prosecutor J. H. Johnson and,his brother Lewis Johnson. The deed was set out in full in each count, and, according to its terms, described and conveyed a tract of land in Putnam county. The evidence shows that the timber on this land belonged to…