Case ID: ga_64/html/0448-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bleckley, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mitchell vs. The State of Georgia.
    [Warner, Chief Justice, being engaged in presiding over the senate organized as a court of impeachment, did not sit in this case.]
    An order for one dollar, payable to the prisoner, and written in pencil, the amount being expressed in a figure one with two noughts, thus, $1.00, was delivered to him in payment of a debt for that sum, which was all that the drawer owed him. He presented it to the drawee for payment, and it then had a figure eight in place of the figure one, and he received payment accordingly:
    
      Held, that with these facts and the order before them, the jury were justified in finding that the one had been altered to an eight, though a witness, using a microscope, testified that he could discern no trace of any alteration:
    
      Held, also, that the jury could infer that the alteration was made by the prisoner, there being evidence that he could write, and no evidence to implicate any other person.
   Bleckley, Justice.