Burdge v. State

The plaintiff in error, Marshall S. Burdge, was, on the charge of forgery, indicted by the grand jury of Marion county, and tried, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. He claims that various errors to his prejudice were committed in the trial of the case by the court below, and asks that the convic*513tion and sentence be reversed, and a new trial awarded him. The principal assignment of error relied on is, that there is a variance between the indictment and the evidence offered in support of it. The indictment charged that he did falsely make, alter and forge a certain…