74 Ind. 263 | Ind. | 1881
The appellee was indicted for forgery, in uttering and publishing as true and genuine, a certain “false forged and counterfeit national bank note, which false, forged and counterfeit national bank note is of the tenor following to wit: On face of same are written and printed.” Then followed, what purported and was intended to be, a copy of the national bank note, so uttered and published as true and genuine. After setting out this copy of the note, the indictment further charged, that the note “has printed words and figures thereon, which by reason of the soiled condition of the note are too illegible to obtain sense therefrom so as to be set out herein.”
On the trial of the cause, the State offered in evidence the alleged counterfeit note, but its admission was objected to by the appellee, on account of a variance between it and the copy of the note, set out in the indictment. The objection was sustained by the court, and the note was excluded from the jury; and to this action of the court the State at the time excepted. Under the instructions of the court, the jury returned a verdict for the appellee, that he was not guilty as charged in the indictment; and judgment was rendered accordingly.
The appeal, in this case, is not sustained.