Bender v. State

The defendant Chester Bender was charged in the district court of Custer county with the offense of second-degree forgery; was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of nine months in the state penitentiary, and has appealed to this court.

The information against the defendant reads, in part, as follows:

“That on or about the date aforesaid, in the county and state aforesaid, The said Chester E. Bender did wil-fully, unlawfully, knowingly, wrongfully, feloniously and falsely, make, write and forge a certain written instrument to-wit: a check in the following words and figures, to wit:

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