Stone v. State

PATTERSON, Justice:

This appeal arises from the Circuit Court of Jackson County where the appellant was found guilty of uttering a forgery for which he was sentenced to serve a term of eight years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

There is ample evidence to support the conviction unless it can be said that the State’s failure to prove that the victim of the forgery, Wayne Lee’s Grocery & Market, Inc., was a corporation. Its failure so to do is assigned as error.

In State v. Tatum, 96 Miss. 430, 50 So. 490 (1909), a case in which a partnership was alleged to have been defrauded by…