State v. White

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Defendant has appealed from a judgment and sentence of three years in the penitentiary upon conviction of the crime of forgery in the second degree.

It was charged by information that defendant did deliver, “pass, utter and publish as true” a false, forged and counterfeit check for $240 “purporting to be made by A. B. Clyde, and purporting to be drawn upon the Peoples Bank of Jamestown, Mo., a banking corporation * * Thus the information charged the crime of uttering a forged instrument under Section 561.250 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S., which crime is forgery in the same degree…