Ward v. State

This indictment contains two counts. The first charges Ward with forging S. C. Toof’s name on a check, and the second with passing this check, knowing the indorsement of Toof’s name was *726forgery. He was found guilty under the second count, and his term in the penitentiary fixed at five years. When called to answer the indictment, the plaintiff in error filed a plea in abatement, in which' he averred that he was extradited from Spanish Honduras, under a proper process of extradition by an agent of the United States, for the “offense of forgery alleged to have been committed by him in Tennessee;…