State v. Brown
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Third. District; Hon. George-G. Armstrong, Judge. Defendant was convicted of forgery and appealed. respondent's authorities. It was sufficient for the state to prove a de facto corporation. This is undoubtedly the law. (People v. Hughes, 29‘ Cal. 257; People v. Ah Sam, 31 Cal. 645; People v. Barrie,. 49 Cal. 342; State v. Thompson, 23 Kan:. 338, 33 Am.
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Appeal from District Court, Third. District; Hon. George-G. Armstrong, Judge. Defendant was convicted of forgery and appealed. respondent's authorities. It was sufficient for the state to prove a de facto corporation. This is undoubtedly the law. (People v. Hughes, 29‘ Cal. 257; People v. Ah Sam, 31 Cal. 645; People v. Barrie,. 49 Cal. 342; State v. Thompson, 23 Kan:. 338, 33 Am. Bep'. 165; U. S. v. Amedy, 11 Wheat. 392; Peed v. State, 15 Ohio Bep. 217; State v. Pittam [Wash.], 72 Pac. 1042.) The fact that the company was incorporated became material only as a matter of description, and that…
1Opinion of the Court
ERICK, J.,
The appellant was charged, tried, and convicted of the-crime of forging and uttering as genuine a certain check. The case was before this court at a former term, and the-judgment of conviction for the same offense was reversed.. (State v. Brown, 33 Utah 109, 93 Pac. 52.)
*48The first assignment relates to the same error for which the case was reversed on the former appeal, namely, that the trial court erred in permitting the corporate existence of the Utah Apex Mining Company to be proved by admitting 1 evidence that said company was generally reputed to be a corporation. It is insisted…
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