Stallcup v. State

The charge on which this appellant was convicted was, briefly, that he took a bank cheek, which he either forged himself, or knew to be forged by another, purporting to be signed by one Nyhoff, to the Tennessee Valley Bank of Sheffield, Ala., and by representing and depositing it to his credit, as genuine, procured from said bank some $4,000 in money and other things of value.

The only disputed question in the case was whether or not appellant forged the Nyhoff cheek, or knew that it was forged when he deposited it in the bank. Nyhoff, who was away from Sheffield at the time of the…