Legal Opinion

State v. Calkins

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided October 25, 1887PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from Sac District Court. The defendant was convicted of the crime of uttering and publishing a false and forged instrument, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary, and from that judgment he appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.

It was proven on the trial in the district court that defendant had in his possession two instruments in writ-' ing, which purported to be the promissory notes of one J. A. Lawrence, payable to defendant, and that he sold and delivered the same to W. W. Robinson. And there was evidence which tended to prove that said instruments were false and forged; also that the body of the instruments and the signatures thereto were in defendant’s handwriting.

hvxDiwroB: forgery: handSaíbyde6* fendant. . I. The sale of the instruments to Robinson was made at Odebolt, on the 12th of October, 1884. The state…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Commonwealth v. SearleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1810

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. State v. MeeksSupreme Court of Iowa · 1954
  2. The People v. KatzIllinois Supreme Court · 1934
  3. Christy v. Des Moines City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1905
  4. State v. FarringtonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
  5. State v. WickettSupreme Court of Iowa · 1941

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