The People v. Katz

By writ of error this case comes from the criminal court of Cook county, where plaintiffs in error, Sam Katz and Isidore Kahn, (herein called defendants,) were found guilty by a jury of the crime of forgery. They were indicted upon four counts. The first, upon which the conrdction is based, charged them with uttering and passing as genuine a certain forged check on the Lake View Trust and Savings Bank and obtaining credit thereby. The second charged them with attempting the crime set forth in the first count. The third charged them with uttering the forged check with the intent to prejudice…