State v. Merritt

Defendant has appealed from a judgment of conviction of the crime of forgery and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The information charged that defendant on or about the 18th day of March 1959, “did, wilfully, wrongfully, unlawfully, and feloniously utter, publish and pass as true and genuine a certain false, forged document, purporting to be made by one Mrs. Walter J. Powers, and purporting to be signed by the said Mrs. Walter J. Powers, the said defendant, Ralph Merritt, then and there knowing that the said document was false and forged as aforesaid; * * * with the intent in…