State v. Cotts

Poffenbarger, Judge:

In tbe circuit court of Marshall County, on tbe 4th day of *616August, 1900, the defendant herein, W. J. Cotts, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the penitentiary of this State, upon a verdict of guilty, found by a jury on the 5th day of July, 1900, upon an indictment, charging him, in the first count thereof, with having unlawfully and feloniously forged the endorsement of J. G. Haberfield on the back of a promissory note for two hundred dollars, signed by said defendant, dated Wheeling, West Virginia, July 27, 1899, and payable four months after date to the order…