Shaffer v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Huntington Circuit Court, under section 288 of the act defining public offences, R. S. 1881, sec. 2204, for obtaining money by means of a false token or writing. The indictment was in three' counts, but the court sustained the appellant’s motion to quash the third, and, overruling the motion as to the first and second counts, granted a change of venue to Wabash county, where, upon trial by a jury, there was a general verdict of guilty, upon which the appellant was sentenced to the State prison for the period of two years and to pay a fine of $10.

Upon…