State v. Patsel

This is an appeal by the State of Indiana from a judgment of the trial court in a criminal case, sustaining the appellee’s motion for a directed verdict made at the close of the state’s evidence and before any evidence was introduced on behalf of the appellee.

The appellee was charged by indictment in six counts, the first three of which charged the appellee with feloniously, falsely and fraudulently making, forging and counterfeiting a certain last will and testament purporting to have been made by one Amanda Harley; the last three of said counts charging the appellee with unlawfully,…