Keese v. State

By information, appellants were charged jointly under § 41-1811, Ark. Stats., 1947, with the “crime of possessing forged and counterfeited instrument committed as follows, to-wit: The said defendants on the 10th day of July, 1953, in Miller County, Arkansas, did unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously, falsely and fraudulently have and keep in their possession divers false, forged and counterfeited checks and drafts and fictitious instruments purporting to be checks, etc.”

Trial resulted in a verdict finding both guilty and leaving the- punishment to be assessed by the Court. Pilgreen was…