State v. Lebo

The appellant was convicted of forging the name of the payee, in an indorsement on a check drawn to the order of Doxie Manuel by F.B. Odom, and of uttering the forged instrument. His defense was that he signed the name of Doxie Manuel, the payee, on the reverse of the check, with the consent of Manuel, which he indicated by adding the words, "by W.P. Lebo."

After all the evidence had been heard, and the trial judge had delivered his charge, the defendant requested a special charge to the effect that, if the jury found, as a fact, that defendant at the time of the alleged forgery signed the…