Legal Opinion
Burke v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 15, 1880PublishedCited by 14 opinions
Criminal law. Evidence. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. March Term, 1879. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford,. J ustice.
The plaintiff, in error was indicted in Fulton superior court for forgery and counterfeiting, and on a second count, with uttering and publishing as true a certain forged order, of which the following is a copy :
“ George — Please let the boy have $2.00 worth of what he wants. October the 1st, 1878. •. W. C. Peck.”
1. The defendant demu-red to the indictment upon the ground that the order which was charged as a forgery was so incomplete and imperfect that no one could have been defrauded by it, and no recovery, could have been had upon it by suit. The court overruled the…
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