Legal Opinion

State v. Kroeger

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided March 15, 1871PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. The first count of the indictment charged that said Kroeger, 11 on the eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, at St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis aforesaid, with intent then and there to injure and defraud, did unlawfully and feloniously falsely make, forge and counterfeit, in county and State aforesaid, a check for the payment of money, purporting to be the act of M. E. Susisky,…

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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. The first count of the indictment charged that said Kroeger, 11 on the eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, at St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis aforesaid, with intent then and there to injure and defraud, did unlawfully and feloniously falsely make, forge and counterfeit, in county and State aforesaid, a check for the payment of money, purporting to be the act of M. E. Susisky, treasurer of the city of St. Louis, a municipal corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws…

1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge

The defendant was indicted and convicted in the Criminal Court for forgery in the third degree. The charge in the indictment was that on the 11th day of December, 1869, with intent to injure and defraud, he willfully and feloniously falsely made, forged and counterfeited a certain check for the payment of money, purporting to be the act of M. E. Susisky, treasurer of the city of St. Louis, with intent to defraud and injure the Traders’ Bank.

As it is claimed that the indictment is defective, it is sufficient to say that it is abundantly good according to the decision of this court in the case…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Putnam v. SullivanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
  2. Farmers' Bank v. GartenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1863
  3. State v. FenlySupreme Court of Missouri · 1853
  4. Tumilty v. Bank of MissouriSupreme Court of Missouri · 1850
  5. Henderson v. BondurantSupreme Court of Missouri · 1867

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Clifford Banking Co. v. Donovan Commission Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1906
  2. Taylor v. SartoriousMissouri Court of Appeals · 1908
  3. Quick Service Box Co. v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1938
  4. People v. DickieNew York Supreme Court · 1891
  5. Yeager v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1929

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