Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0130-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MARSHALL, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 161
    No. 19147.
    In the Matter of the Exceptions of the Prosecuting Attorney of Jefferson County, Ohio, in the case of State of Ohio, Plaintiff, v. Alexander C. Douglas, Defendant.
    Exceptions to the Common Pleas Court of Jefferson county.
    547. FORGERY — Where instrument is forged in Ohio, and is in possession or under control of forger and agents and is then mailed to city in another state, crime of uttering and publishing such forged instrument not complete in Ohio.
   MARSHALL, C. J.

On a charge of uttering and publishing a forged instrument with intent to defraud under section 13083, General Code, where the instrument was forged in the state of Ohio and thereupon transmitted by mail to a city in another state and such instrument was at all times in the possession or under the control of such forger and his agents until the same passed beyond the territorial borders of the state of Ohio, the crime of uttering and publishing is not complete in the state of Ohio.

Exceptions overruled.

Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.