State v. Rosborough

The defendant was charged by information, in two counts, with forging, and with uttering and publishing as genuine, a certain record or public document as set out in the information. He was convicted by a jury, and was sentenced to serve at hard labor in the penitentiary a term of not less than five nor more than seven years.

• The- document charged to have been forged purports to be a petition signed by Judge T. F. Bell of the First judicial district court, and addressed to the board of pardons, and reads as follows:

“Recommendation.

“After examining the facts in the ease of Ed Pitts and…