State v. Willson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The defendant was convicted, in the district court for the county of Hennepin, of the crime of uttering a false deed, after a trial by jury, Young, J., presiding, and was sentenced to imprisonment for two years and six months. This appeal is taken from the judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The defendant was indicted, under Gen. St. 1878, c. 96, § 2, for uttering and publishing as true a false deed, knowing the same to be false, with intent to injure and defraud. The indictment sets out in hcee verba the alleged false deed, which purports, on its face, to be a deed of conveyance of land by one James D. Hoitt to Joseph F. Miller, and to be signed by H. H. Willson, per procuration of said Hoitt, the form of the signature being “James D. Hoitt, by H. H. Willson his attorney in fact.” Upon the trial of the cause it *53appeared that the defendant signed the deed in question, claiming…
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