State v. Lindsey

Appellants were found guilty after a trial by the court and a jury of first degree forgery. The charging part of the information reads:

“That the said defendants, E. R. Lindsey and Elbert B. Lindsey, in the County of Spokane, State of Washington, on or about the 17th day of April, 1935, then and there being, did then and there wilfully, knowingly, falsely, fraudulently, unlawfully and felon-iously utter and put off as true to F. E. Davis a certain false and forged writing, to-wit: the signature of R. A. Jacobs on an instrument in writing commonly known as a note in words and figures as…