State v. Gee
Oregon Supreme Court
The defendant, David L. Gee, was indicted for knowingly uttering and publishing a certain forged and counterfeit writing, in form and similitude of the certificate described in the indictment.
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The defendant, David L. Gee, was indicted for knowingly uttering and publishing a certain forged and counterfeit writing, in form and similitude of the certificate described in the indictment. It is charged, in substance, that pursuant to section 4085 of Hill’s Oode, as amended by the act of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (Session Laws, 1893, p. 60), the County Court of Multnomah County, on January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, levied a tax of one mill upon all taxable property within the county, which was collected and kept as a separate fund, known as…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Wolverton.
The only theory upon which this case can proceed is that the law has provided for an official certificate or return of a road supervisor, which may be received by the county court as legal evidence of the facts certified to, and has further prescribed a penalty for forging or counterfeiting the same, and for uttering such certificate so forged or counterfeited with intent to defraud. The indictment is drawn under section 1808, Hill’s Code of Oregon which provides that “If any person shall, with intent to injure or defraud any one, falsely make, alter, forge, or…
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