People v. Fitch
New York Supreme Court
The defendant was convicted at the Genesee oyer and term;ner in April last, of forgery at common law. Tlie judgment 1, , , , . . , , . . , , , • was suspended, that the opinion of this court might be obtain-®d as to the legality of the conviction.
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The defendant was convicted at the Genesee oyer and term;ner in April last, of forgery at common law. Tlie judgment 1, , , , . . , , . . , , , • was suspended, that the opinion of this court might be obtain-®d as to the legality of the conviction. The indictment con-tamed two counts; the fust charging the defendant with forging an order for the delivery of goods, to wit, an order drawn by the defendant on one Kellogg, for a cow to be delivered to one Bangs, bearing date the 14th November, 1823 ; the sec-one! charging the uttering and publishing of the same order ag true, with intent to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Savage, Ch. J.
Is this forgery 1 Forgery has often been defined by learned jurists. By Mr. Justice Blackstone, “ forgery is the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing, to the prejudice of another’s rightby Bidler, justice, “ the making a false instrument with intent to deceive by Baron Eyre, “ a false "signature with intent to deceive.” Again ; “the false making an "instrument which purports, on the face of it, to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud by Grose, justice, “the .false making a note or other instrument with intent…
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