People v. Staigers

The appellant was charged and convicted of the crime of forgery, thereafter moved for a new trial, which was denied, and appeals from the judgment and from the order denying such motion. The specific acts upon which appellant was charged with having committed the offense mentioned, consisted of the alleged preparation in pencil of a letter, to which he obtained the signatures of his employers on April 23, 1927, which writing he later erased, writing in lieu thereof with typewriter, upon the same paper and over said signatures, a contract of employment at a stated salary and commission, and…