Satterfield v. State

From a judgment of conviction for the offense of forgery in the second degree this appeal was taken. At the conclusion of the state’s case a motion was made to exclude the evidence and discharge the defendant on the grounds that the state had failed to meet the burden of proof resting upon it, and that the evidence adduced was insufficient to authorize a conviction of the accused for the offense charged in the indictment.

The practice of entertaining a motion to exclude all the evidence offered by the state and discharge the defendant as a test of its sufficiency to sustain the indictment has…