Leslie v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Sweetwater County, Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. J. H. Leslie was convicted of forgery, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. A motion in arrest of judgment was overruled and the defendant prosecuted error. The fácts aré fully stated in the opinions. ' The facts stated in the information do not constitute an offence punishable by the laws of Wyoming.
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Error to the District Court, Sweetwater County, Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. J. H. Leslie was convicted of forgery, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. A motion in arrest of judgment was overruled and the defendant prosecuted error. The fácts aré fully stated in the opinions. ' The facts stated in the information do not constitute an offence punishable by the laws of Wyoming. The instrument could not be considered the instrument of or one executed by the Rocky Mountain News. It did not have the capacity to injure or defraud. Where an instrument does not show on its face that one…
1Opinion of the Court
Knight, Justice.
Appellant was convicted of forgery and given three years in the penitentiary under a statutory provision of Wyoming particularly intended, it would seem, to cover a multitude of sins, which is as follows:
“Sec. 5128. Every person who shall falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit any record or other authentic matter of a public nature, or any charter, letters-patent, deed, lease-, indenture, writing obligatory, will, testament, codicil, annuity, bond, covenant, United States treasury note or United States bond, bank bill or note, post note, check or draft, bill of exchange,…
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