State v. Webster
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before J. E. McDonald, Special Judge, Anderson, March, 1910. Indictment against George Webster for forgery. Defendant appeals. cite: No intention to defraud: 24 E. R. A. 3; 19 Cyc. 1380; 8 Am. St. R. 70; 1 Am. Cr. L. 225; 5 Am. Cr. R. 239; 28 t. R. A. 127; 24 L. R. A. 33. Oral argument.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
This is an appeal from the sentence, imposed upon the defendant, for uttering a forged instrument of writing.
The third count of the indictment, under which the defendant was convicted, charges that he did “wilfully utter and publish as true a certain false, forged, and counterfeited writing, and instrument of writing, commonly called an order, of the tenor as follows: ‘Belton, S. C., Nov. 13th, 1909. Please let this man have my express, oblige, yours truly, Eliot Jefferson;’ he, the said George Webster, then and there well knowing the…
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