Legal Opinion
Blais v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided March 28, 1910PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from Sebastian Circuit Court, Fort Smith District; Daniel Hon, Judge; Indictments should not be qua.shed for clerical misprisons. 75 Ark. 574; 66 Ark. 559; 90 Ark. 123. In an indictment for forgery by signing a company’s name, it need not be alleged that the company is a partnership or a corporation. 122 Ala. 100; 25 N. Y. 380; 48 Ark. 94; 71 Miss. 874; 17 Nev. 224; 21 Wend. 409; 1 Johns. 320.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
Appellant by this appeal -questions' the sufficiency' of the first count of the following indictment:
“The grand jury of Sebastian County, for the Fort Smith District thereof, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse t'he defendant, Charles Blais, of the crime of forgery, committed as follows, towit: The said defendant, in the county and district aforesaid, on the first day of November, 1909, unlawfully, fraudulently and feloniously did forge and counterfeit a certain writing or paper purporting to be a bank check, which said writing on paper, in words and figures…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Denson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898
- Noakes v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Gates v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1894
3Cited by5 opinions
- Walker v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1926
- Southwick v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1916
- Schaal v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1921
- Bennett v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
- Hargraves v. Continental Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1970