Case ID: mich_79/html/0361-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Campbell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People v. William J. Dane.
    
      Criminal law — Uttering forged deed.
    
    Procuring the recording of a forged deed, or undertaking to raise money upon it, is an uttering, if done with intent to defraud. People v. Swetland, 77 Mich. 53.
    Exceptions before judgment from recorder’s court of Detroit. (Gartner, J., presiding).
    Argued January 23, 1890.
    Decided January 31, 1890.
    Respondent was convicted of uttering a forged deed. Conviction affirmed. The facts are stated in the oninion.
    
      William B. Jaclcson, for respondent.
    
      8. V. B. Trowbridge, Attorney General, and J. V. T>. Willcox, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
   Campbell, J.

Defendant was convicted of uttering a forged deed. The only error alleged is that the verdict should have been for respondent. There was proof that the deed was forged, and proof that Dane procured its acknowledgment by false personation. There was proof that would authorize the inference that he procured it to be recorded, and proof that he undertook to raise money on it. Any of these acts would be an uttering, if intended to defraud, of which there could be no doubt, if the facts shown were true.

The conviction should be affirmed.

The other Justices concurred.