People v. Adams

Elmer F. Adams, plaintiff in error, was tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary on an indictment preferred against him in the circuit court of DuPage county, charging him with forging a bond of the village of Glen Ellyn for $500, with interest at five per cent. The court overruled the motion of the defendant to quash the indictment and denied motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment.

The indictment contained five counts, in each of which the bond alleged to have been forged was set out in hcec verba, and it bears the signatures of the president, treasurer and clerk of the…