State v. Amiss

VIOSCA, Justice ad hoc.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of the crime of forgery and his sentence to serve one year in the parish prison. He relies on six bills of exceptions.

By bill of information, the defendant was charged as follows:

“ * * * did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, with intent to defraud, forge, issue and transfer as true a certain check of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company * * *

This information was brought under LSA-Revised Statutes 14:72, which reads:

“Forgery is the false making or altering, with intent to defraud, of any signature to, or any part of, any…