Meadows

Meadows brought writ of error to review his conviction of conspiracy (section 37, Penal Code [Comp. St. § 10201]). The indictment charged that in December, 1924, Meadows and five others combined together to commit certain offenses against the United States:

(1) Knowingly and feloniously to alter and forge, and aid and assist in altering and forging, certain orders, contracts, and writings on the backs of certain genuine regisered Liberty bonds of the United States, the bonds being particularly described (with photographs of them and their reverse sides included) in the indictment, with intent to obtain and receive, and enable certain persons to obtain and receive, from the United States and its officers and agents, the sums of money named on the face of each of the bonds described; the orders and writings on the backs of the described bonds so falsely altered and forged being in words and figures as particularly set forth in the indictment. As an example, on the face of one of the bonds appears the name of Brookelsby as payee, whose name appears as transferer, acknowledging the transfer before J. L. Bard, notary public, Los Angeles. The indictment further alleges that the…