State v. Whiteneck

Appellee was indicted in three counts. The first charged that he did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, falsely and fraudulently, raise, change, deface and alter a certain instrument in writing, commonly called a receipt for money, purporting to have been made and executed by “Jos. H. Rees” to Ora Whiteneck, as a receipt for $280. *405The alleged form of the instrument after alteration, which was for $280, and the alleged altered receipt, which was for $80, both otherwise identical and purporting to be “on contract of Wm. Reeves Ditch,” are set out. It is alleged that appellee fraudulently…