Jackson v. State

This appeal is from the denial by the Criminal Court of Baltimore of a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. The defendant-appellant, Jackson, was convicted in that court on each of four counts of an indictment, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. The first two counts were based upon forgery (forgery of a bill of exchange (a check) for $76.16) and uttering a forged bill of exchange (the same check). The third and fourth counts, also based upon the same check, charged obtaining money by false pretenses. The first two counts were evidently intended to charge violations of…