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" In still other words, the forged instrument, to be the foundation for an indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created. "
Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme Court of the ... - Page 418
by Iowa. Supreme Court - 1869
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Commentaries on the Criminal Law, Volume 2

Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1865 - 806 pages
...Bald. 370. See Ry. 65 ; Rex v. Gade, 2 Leach, 4th d still other words, the forged instrument, to be matter of indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created.1 It must be, in another aspect, such that, if it were genuine, it would be evidence of the...
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Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on ..., Volume 4

Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason - 1867 - 1150 pages
...the prejudice of another man's right, and so as that the instrument shall purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created ; and that any material alteration is a forgery, as appears on the face of it, when in fact there is...
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Commentaries on the Criminal Law, Volume 2

Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1868 - 832 pages
...on a charge of forgery.6^!!! still other words, the forged instrument, to be the foundation for an indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created.7 It must be, in another aspect, such that, if it were genuine, it would be evidence of the...
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The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the ...

1870 - 1090 pages
...366, " The definition of forgery is the false making an instrument which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created with a design to defraud," &c. Again, at p. 855, East says it is forgery " if he make a subsequent...
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Reports of Decisions in Criminal Cases Made at Term at Chambers ..., Volume 5

Amasa Junius Parker - 1872 - 720 pages
...legal existence as that of the other. " Forgery is the false making of an instrument which purports, on its face, to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created." (1 Hawkins, ch. 70, § 7 ; 2 East PC, ch. 19, § 45 ; 1 Leach, 407, 547 ; 9 Wend. R, Shalts Case.)...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 37

Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1873 - 622 pages
...words, the forged VOL. XXXVII— 6 Hotchkiss v. Olmsteacl. instrument, to be the foundation for an indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was' created." The case of Drummond v. Leslie, 5 Blackf. 453, is very much in point. That was an action for slander....
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 15

1877 - 558 pages
...only, are illegal and void, ftoode v. Slate. —It an instrument does not purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created, it cannot legally be the subject of forgery, if not genuine. Anlhnnn v. Afaiiory. — A sale and delivery...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 25

Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 888 pages
...Palmer's Case, id. 366, that the instrument to be the subject of forgery must "purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created." 2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 506. The demurrer to the indictment should have been sustained. Aultman v. Mallory....
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The Canada Law Journal, Volume 19

1883 - 434 pages
...writing, to the prejudice of another man's right, or the false making of an instrument, which purports on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created, with a design to defraud any person or persons. In 3 Greenleaf 's Evidence, sec. 103, to the former...
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New York Criminal Reports: Reports of Cases Decided in All Courts ..., Volume 2

1885 - 704 pages
...The court remarked that the instrument, to be the subject of forgery, must purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created. For the reason that criminal forgery was not averred in the second count in the indictment, nor proved...
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