Smith v. State

Janies B. Smith was convicted in the superior court of Chatham county on an indictment containing two counts. The first count charged him with the offense of forging a certificate of stock, fully described in the count, and the second count charged him with falsely and fraudulently uttering and publishing as true the forged instrument described, with intent to defraud the Commercial Bank of Savannah. On the trial the State abandoned the first count of the indictment, on the ground that the actual forgery of the instrument described did not take place in Chatham county. The jury found the…