Butler v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Geo. D. Shortbibge. The plaintiff in error, Win. H. Butler, was indicted for forgery. The indictment contained seven counts, to each and all of which the prisoner demurred. The court sustained the demurrer to the fourth and seventh counts, and overruled it as to the others.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Geo. D. Shortbibge. The plaintiff in error, Win. H. Butler, was indicted for forgery. The indictment contained seven counts, to each and all of which the prisoner demurred. The court sustained the demurrer to the fourth and seventh counts, and overruled it as to the others. On the trial, as appears by the bill of exceptions, the State offered in evidence to the jury the following instrument in writing, viz : “ By the twenty-fifth day of December next I promise date to pay Wm. H. Butler, or bearer, the sum of one hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
LIGON, <J.
The first, second, third and fifth counts of this indictment are evidently framed in reference to the forty-third section of the fourth chapter of our Penal Code, (Clay’s Digest 423, §43,) which declares, that “every person who shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, any bond, bill single, promissory note, bill of exchange,'or the acceptance of any bill of exchange, or the indorsement of any bond, bill single, promissory note, or bill of exchange, or any cotton receipt, or receipt for the payment of money, or any other thing, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of…
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