State v. Socwell

In the Circuit Court of Jackson County there was filed an information charging defendant with forgery in the second degree, that is, with having in his possession on December 24, 1924, a certain check with intent to defraud and with selling and delivering same with intent to have it uttered and passed. Tried and convicted, the jury fixed the punishment at two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, defendant appealing.

The salient facts developed by the State warrant the finding that on December 24, 1924, Christmas Eve day, between eight and nine o'clock P.M., a man entered the drug store of…