State v. Duffield

McWhorter, Judge:

J. F. C. Duffield was indicted in the circuit court of Roane County for forging the names of A. J. Arnold and C. L. Moore by endorsement thereof on the back of a note of which the following is a copy: “Twenty dollars and fifty-five cents. Spen*275cer, W. Va., Nov. 13, 1896. Ninety days after date I promise to pay to the order of A. J. Arnold twenty and fifty-five one hundredths dollars, value received. Negotiable and payable at the Bank of Spencer, Spencer, W. Va. J. F. C. Duffield,” and uttering and attempting to employ as true the said note, and said forged and fraudulent…