State v. Talip

Miller, Judge:

The indictment contains four counts. The first count charges defendants with the forgery, on the -day of January, 1920, of a certain receipt of the American Railway Express Company, issued to the defendants at Clarksdale, Mississippi, December 8, 1919, by raising the value of the shipment as therein declared by the shippers, from $770.00 to $3,770.00, for the purpose of establishing the value of the merchandise contained in their store building at Omar, in Logan County, West Virginia, and their claim for loss of said goods by fire under the several insurance policies then…