State v. Wilson

The defendant appeals from a conviction and sentence for forgery.

The indictment charges that the defendant (John Willie Wilson) “did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, with intent to defraud, forge and utter as true a check of Earnest Young in favor of McDonald & Co., drawn on Ruston State Bank, in the sum of $12, knowing the same to be false and forged.”

Bill of exception No. 1 recites that the check was signed “Earnest Young, his (x) mark” ; that defendant did not know how to read or write; that defendant testified that when he put his (x) mark on the check-he believed it was drawn in his…