Legal Opinion

State v. Cody

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 16, 1896No. Nos. 9852-(64)PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Error to the district court for St. Louis county. Defendant was convicted of the crime of uttering a forged instruinent. A motion in arrest of judgment was denied by the court, Ensign, J., and defendant was sentenced to confinement in the state prison for five years and one month.

1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.

The defendant, Samuel Cody, was convicted in the district court of St. Louis county upon an indictment accusing him of having committed the crime of uttering a forged instrument. The indictment is in the following words and figures, viz.:

"The said Samuel Cody on the twelfth day of January, A. D. 1895, at the village of Virginia, in the said county of St. Louis and state of Minnesota, fraudulently and feloniously did utter and dispose of, to one Mike Mitchell, with intent then and there to defraud the said Mike Mitchell, a certain false and forged instrument in writing, purporting to be a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

People v. StewartMichigan Supreme Court · 1857

3Cited by6 opinions

State v. HowardSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
State v. QuackenbushSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
State v. OmanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1963
State v. ClementsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
State v. IsaacsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1923

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