Hodgkin v. State

W. F. Hodgkin was indicted for forging a check. The check was originally given for two dollars and forty cents, according to the state’s witness, and the original check did not have the lines for writing filled in, but had figures, two hundred dollars and forty cents, in the margin, and the body had been subsequently filled in for two hundred forty dollars. This, the proof shows, had been changed from the original reading of two dollars and forty cents.

The instrument was set out at large in the indictment, and it was charged therein that: “He, the said W. F. Hodgkin, then and there well…