Stowers v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 26 — INDICTMENT FORGERY APPEAL PROM DAVIESS CRIMINAL COURT. CITED MS. Opinion, Feb. 11, 1876, Snider v. Commonwealth. Starkie’s Criminal Pleading, 2d ed., page 112. Archbold’s Crim. PI. & Ev., London ed., page 358. Wharton’s Am. Crim. Law, pages 592, 593, 3d ed. Criminal Code, section 121. 2 Bishop’s Crim. Pro., sections 374, 360. 3 Met. 5. 1 Duvall, 90. 1 Met. 368. 18 B. Mon. 493.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ELLIOTT
delivered the opinion oe the court.
The appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Daviess Circuit Court for the crime of forgery, and his motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial having been overruled, he has appealed to this court; and the material question to be decided is as to the sufficiency of the indictment to warrant the judgment complained of. The indictment charges the offense as follows: “ The said N. M. Stowers, in the said county of Daviess, on the 4th day of March, 1872, and before the finding of this indictment, did forge the name of Ed. Bosley to…
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