State v. Frasier
Oregon Supreme Court
From Benton: Jambs ~W. Hamilton, Judge. Department 2. The defendant E. J. Frasier was indicted by the grand jury of Lane County, Oregon, for the crime of uttering a forged receipt. The case was transferred to Benton County where he was tried and convicted. From the judgment of sentence, defendant appeals.
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From Benton: Jambs ~W. Hamilton, Judge. Department 2. The defendant E. J. Frasier was indicted by the grand jury of Lane County, Oregon, for the crime of uttering a forged receipt. The case was transferred to Benton County where he was tried and convicted. From the judgment of sentence, defendant appeals. The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “The said_E. J. Frasier, on the 11th day of August, A. D. 1917, in the County of Lane, State of Oregon, then and there being did then and there willfully, knowingly and feloniously, utter and publish, as true and genuine, to one A. M.…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
The overruling of the demurrer to the indictment is assigned as error, and several objections and exceptions to the testimony are upon the ground of the insufficiency of the charge.
The contention is made that by reason of the allegation in the indictment that the defendant did “wrongfully and unlawfully and feloniously, utter and publish, as true and genuine, to one A. M. Cannon, as Referee in Bankruptcy, a certain false and forged writing,” etc., if the indictment is sufficient to constitute a crime, the question would be one for the federal courts and not in the state courts.
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