Cogsdell v. State

Appellant was charged in an indictment with the alleged crime of uttering and publishing as true a forged check, knowing the instrument to be forged. There is no proof whatever in the record in support of that charge. The proof, at most, is that he was found in possession of a check upon which an indorsement had been forged. There is no charge of forgery, which, under our statutes, is a separate and distinct offense, even if the proof tended to establish the guilt of the forgery. There is, therefore, nothing before us upon which the conviction can be sustained, under the present record.

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