State v. Allen
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Jno. W. Wofford, Judge. (1) Appellant called as a witness diaries H. Dorton, and offered to prove that M., H. Allen on September 21, 1901, passed a forged check on him, and that appellant was not the person. The rejection of such offered evidence was error.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Jno. W. Wofford, Judge. (1) Appellant called as a witness diaries H. Dorton, and offered to prove that M., H. Allen on September 21, 1901, passed a forged check on him, and that appellant was not the person. The rejection of such offered evidence was error. State v. Bailey, 94 Mo. 311; State v. Murray, 91 Mo. 104; State v. Yaeger, 66 Mo. 180; State v. Patrick, 107 Mo. 154. The State proved at the trial that the trunk which Marion Freling sold to M. H. Allen, mentioned in the information, was found in San Francisco, California, and brought back by the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
On November 7, 1901, the prosecuting attorney of Jackson county filed in the office of the clerk of the criminal court of said county, an information containing several counts, in the second of which, the count under which he was convicted, defendant was •charged with forgery in the second degree.
The defendant, in the forenoon of September 20th ■or 21st, 1901, went to the business house of N. M. Freling, a trunk and valise manufacturer in Kansas City, Missouri, and made inquiries about a trunk which he •desired to purchase. The trunk in question was priced to him at $12.40. Defendant left,…
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- State v. BybeeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1899
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