State v. Adcox

Hart, J.,

(after stating the facts). The Attorney General says that the indictment is based on § 2462 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest, which reads as follows: “If any person shall forge or counterfeit any writing whatever, whereby fraudulently to obtain the possession or to deprive another of any money or property, or cause him to be injured in his estate or lawful rights, or if he shall utter -and publish such instrument, knowing it to be forged and counterfeited, be shall, on cónviction, be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years.”

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