State v. Phares

*173The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

J. W. Phares appeals from a conviction upon four separate counts charging him with forging a note, forging a real estate mortgage securing it, possessing the forged note with intent to Utter it, and offering to sell, exchange and deliver, and selling, exchanging and delivering the forged note with the intention of having it uttered.

No evidence was introduced in behalf of the defendant. The state’s evidence tended to show these facts: Mike Mauzy, a nonresident of the state, owned a tract of land in Trego county, which the defendant, his nephew…