Womble v. State

1. Tbis was an indictment charging Abner Womble with the forgery of an assignment upon the back of a promissory note executed by him and payable to Elizabeth Johnson, the same being an assignment to R. A. Matthews & Company purporting to have been signed by the payee of the note. There was no demurrer to the indictment, but in one ground of the motion for a new trial filed by the accused after bis conviction it was alleged generally, without stating in what respect the indictment was defective, that the same was insufficient in law. Manifestly, tbis is not the proper method of attacking an…