State v. Patch

Defendant Patch was convicted of forgery. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order of the district court overruling his motion for a new trial. The charging part of the information is as follows: “The said Everton J. Patch, on the 12th day of July, 1897, at the county of Deer Lodge and state of Montana, did upon the back of a certain certificate of deposit and writing obligatory for money, of the -tenor following: ‘Certificate of Deposit, $60.00. No. 58,344. Hoge, Daly & Co., Bankers, Anaconda, Mont., May 11, 1897. Edw. Dugan has deposited in this bank sixty.... —…