Case Name: 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
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1926
Citations: 4 Ohio Law Abs. 130
Docket Number: No. 19147
Parties: 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.
Judges: Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 4
Pages: 130–130

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.