McCormick v. State

The appellant was convicted of the offense of issuing a fraudulent check and was sentenced to an indeterminate term of one to ten years in the Indiana State Prison. He appeals, assigning as error the overruling of his motion to quash the affidavit and the overruling of his motion for new trial.

The motion to quash specifies that (1) the facts stated in the affidavit do not constitute a public offense, and (2) the affidavit does not state the offense with sufficient certainty.

It seems necessary to a proper understanding of the case to set out the affidavit. Omitting formal parts, it reads as…