Hamil v. United States

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Burley H. Hamil, captain of an infantry company in the Alabama National Guard, was convicted on a count of an indictment which charges that he forged the indorsement of one Odis Gáuntt, the payee of a genuine check for $36.40 drawn upon the Treasurer of the United States by a finance officer, in violation of section 148 of the Criminal Code (Comp. St. § 10318). The trial court overruled a demurrer which asserts the proposition that forgery of the indorsement does not constitute forgery of an “obligation or other security of the United States.”

The case was…