The People v. Crouch

The sole question presented by the People on this writ of error is the correctness of the order of the Champaign County circuit court quashing a forgery indictment against defendant for failure to identify the person whom defendant intended to defraud.

The indictment charged defendant “committed the offense of forgery, in that he, with intent to defraud, knowingly delivered to Ralph E. Scogin, doing business as the Elbo Room, a check, a document apparently capable of defrauding another, drawn on the second national bank of danville, a corporation, in the sum of seventy-three dollars and…