Clay v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant-defendant, an indigent, was convicted after indictment of second degree forgery. Sentence imposed by the court was one year and one day imprisonment.

The instrument, the subject of forgery and set out in the indictment, reads as follows :

SAVINGS WITHDRAWAL

*632We note that the insertion “68733 G. J. Ex 1” was not on the instrument when presented to the bank teller, but was placed there by the stenographer taking this evidence adduced before the grand jury. This was done to identify this paper.

It appears from the evidence that defendant…