Court Opinion

ID: 5566363
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 01:02:37.602171+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:37.026263
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Lumpkin, J.
An indictment charging that the accused did “ make and forge the following check for money, to wit:
‘No. 26. Marietta, Ga., July 17th, 1894.
‘The First National Bank pay to the order of Mrs. Anna Lyons twenty-five dollars 00-100.
‘ $25-1°0V E. O. Henderson,’
meaning O. E. Henderson of the firm of Henderson and Austin,” etc., is not a good indictment for forgery. It does not charge the forgery of the name of any person alleged to be actually in existence, but at most only charges a mere intention to forge the name of a real person bearing the name of O. E. Henderson, and shows on its face that this intention failed of accomplishment.
Simmons, O. J., dissenting.

Judgment reversed.