Case Name: Mitchell vs. The State of Georgia
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1879-09
Citations: 64 Ga. 448
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mitchell vs. The State of Georgia.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 64
Pages: 448–448

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
Bleckley, Justice.