Crow v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

The indictment considered by the Court of Appeals charges forgery of a written instrument set out in it in the form of an affidavit purporting to have been executed '.by a witness in a civil suit, in which affiant is made to swear that the certificate issued to him was lost or misplaced and not sold or transferred by him.

The Court of Appeals held that •the indictment was insufficient in not alleging extrinsic facts showing that the instrument, if genuine, would affect some ■.financial or property right, on the authority of Williams v. State, 90 Ala. 649, 8 So. 825, and other…