State v. Pierce
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Callaway Circuit Court.— Hon. John A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) Defendant’s application for continuance was properly overruled because the witnesses alleged to have been absent were present and testified at the trial, and defendant was not prejudiced. The second application for a continuance is not preserved.
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Appeal from Callaway Circuit Court.— Hon. John A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) Defendant’s application for continuance was properly overruled because the witnesses alleged to have been absent were present and testified at the trial, and defendant was not prejudiced. The second application for a continuance is not preserved. (2) The indictment charges, first, the forging and making by defendant of the order therein described by its tenor, and, second, that defendant passed, uttered, and published said false and forged order. It contains all the necessary averments, and is not subject to valid…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The indictment in this case is bottomed on sections 3641 and 3646, Revised Statutes, 1889, and omitting formal parts, is in the following form:
“Unlawfully and feloniously did falsely made and forge a certain instrument in writing, to wit, an order-purporting to be the act of one John Wagers, by which a pecuniary demand and obligation for the payment of $15, by the said John Wagers, to one Jesse Maughs, on the delivery by said Maughs to said John W. Pierce of' $15 worth of goods, purported to be created, which said false and forged instrument and order is of the-tenor following, that is to say:
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- State v. BedellMissouri Court of Appeals · 1889
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