People v. Terrill

COOPER, C.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining defendant’s demurrer to an indictment. The grand jury of Santa Clara county, on the ninth day of May, 1899, presented an indictment against the defendant in the following language:

"The said Samuel B. Terrill is accused by the grand jury of the county of Santa Clara, state of California, by this indictment, found this ninth day of May, A. D. 1899, of the crime of forgery, committed as follows: The said Samuel B. Terrill, on the first day of December, A. D. 1896, at the county and state aforesaid, uttered, published, and passed as true and…