Stockslager

Stockslager v. United States

Good Law
1 Alaska Fed. 810·116 F. 590·54 C.C.A. 46·1902 U.S. App. LEXIS 4364
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMay 5, 1902No. 784California4,165 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Hawley, J.

The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of forgery, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the United States penitentiary at McNeill’s Island, in the state of Washington, for the period of three years. He seeks to have the proceedings in said case reviewed, and to have the judgment rendered therein reversed, for alleged errors occurring therein. The assignment of errors is as follows: “(1) Error in overruling defendant’s motion to quash the indictment. (2) Error of the court in overruling defendant’s demurrer to the indictment. (3) *813 Error of the court in overruling the objection .of defendant to the question, asked the witness Frank Johnson on his direct examination, with reference to the money witness lent defendant, as follows, to wit: ‘Q. State to the jury how you came to let him have it, and what he gave you as security.’ (4) Error of the court in overruling the objection of the defendant to the question asked the witness Frank Johnson on his direct examination, as follows, to wit: ‘Q. What was the name signed to the check?’ (5) Error of the court in overruling the defendant’s objection to admission in evidence of the check and exhibit marked…

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