State v. Rucker
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Saline Criminal Court. — Hon. John E. Ryland, Judge. (1) The indictment is sufficient. It not only charges the offence in the language of the statute, but it describes the instrument according to its tenor. . R. S., sect. 1386. It was not necessary to charge an intent on the part of defendant to defraud any particular person, State v. Terger, 86 Mo. 33 ; State ■». Phillips, 78 Mo. 49 ; State v. Scott, 48 Mo. 422. (2) The instructions presented every phase of the…
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Appeal from Saline Criminal Court. — Hon. John E. Ryland, Judge. (1) The indictment is sufficient. It not only charges the offence in the language of the statute, but it describes the instrument according to its tenor. . R. S., sect. 1386. It was not necessary to charge an intent on the part of defendant to defraud any particular person, State v. Terger, 86 Mo. 33 ; State ■». Phillips, 78 Mo. 49 ; State v. Scott, 48 Mo. 422. (2) The instructions presented every phase of the case under the evidence, and are sufficient, liitzman v. People, 110 111. 362. (3) The evidence was sufficient to…
1Opinion of the CourtBrace, J.
The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted, of the crime of forgery in the second degree; his motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial was overruled, and he brings the case here by appeal.
The indictment, omitting the formal part, is as follows : “That Henry Eucker, on the twentieth day of August, 1886, at the county of Saline aforesaid, feloniously did forge, counterfeit, and falsely make, a certain false, forged, and counterfeit check, purporting to b'e made and drawn by one C. C. Booth, on the Farmers’ Savings Bank, a bank then and there duly incorporated under the laws of the…
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