Balis v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the district court for Lancaster county of the crime of forgery, and sentenced to serve eight years in the penitentiary.

The record shows that plaintiff in error, a practicing lawyer in Lincoln, Nebraska, be'eame acquainted with and performed legal services for three inmates of the penitentiary, Ray O’Neil, Monroe Seiner and Blanchard Beemer. Shortly after his release from the penitentiary, Beemer broke into the branch office of E. W. Biggs & Co., at Fremont, Nebraska, and stole three books of blank drafts. It also appears from the testimony of plaintiff in…