Perkins v. People

Perkins was convicted in the circuit court for the county of Lenawee, of having forged a mortgage given to his wife, Eunice Perkins, by one Heath, by raising the amount from five hundred and fifty dollars to fifteen hundred and fifty dollars, and of having uttered and published the forged instrument. The mortgage was given on a purchase of land by Heath from- Perkins, for which Heath testified he was to pay one thousand dollars, and that he did pay one hundred and fifty, assumed the payment of a mortgage on the land of three hundred, and gave the mortgage in controversy for the balance. The…