Creegan

The defendants were convicted upon an indictment for forgery, and have appealed from the judgment. The forgery of which they were convicted was committed as follows, viz.: On the ninth day of December,1895.Frank L. Seaver, representing himself to he A. J. Scott, purchased from the Bank of Woodland a draft for twelve dollars upon the Crocker-Woolworth Bank of San Francisco, in favor of A. H. Dean. Prior to this date—December 4th—he had deposited the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars with the Nevada Bank, and opened an account there under the name of A. H. Dean. On the / 17th of December he deposited with this hank the above draftf' which in the meantime had been raised from twelve dollars to twenty-two thousand dollars, and had the same placed to higcredit. On the morning of the 18th he drew from the bank *556 twenty thousand dollars in gold coin, and on the succeeding day left the state.. The defendants were indicted by the grand jury of San Francisco for this forgery, upon the ground that they"were parties thereto.

The principal witness on the part of the ’ prosecution was Seaver, by whose testimony the defendants’ connection with the crime was shown as follows: An…