Walker v. State

Appellant was tried under an indictment which charged him with forgery, and with uttering a forged instrument. The writing alleged to have been forged and uttered was a check drawn on the People’s Bank of Ozark, Arkansas, for $4.50, payable to the order of Mathews Hardware Company and purporting to he signed by T. E. Smith. Each count of the indictment alleged that the check was indorsed on the back thereof “Pay to any hank, Ozark, Arkansas. Chas. E. Mathews Hdw. 'Co., Chas. E. Mathews, Prop.”

Appellant was convicted on the count charging him with forging the check, and was acquitted on the…