State v. Wickett

The defendant, for a number of years preceding November, 1938, operated a bulk station for the sale, on commission, of petroleum products of the Standard Oil Company at the town of New Virginia, in Warren County, Iowa. It is contended by the State that in the year 1938, the defendant turned in to the agency of the Standard Oil Company, at Des Moines, a number of sales tickets showing purported sales of the company’s products, on credit, upon which he would receive commissions, when in fact he had made no such sales, and had forged the signatures of the claimed purchasers on the tickets. The…