State v. Douglas

Ohio Supreme Court
State v. Douglas, 4 Ohio Law. Abs. 130 (Ohio 1926)
Allen, Day, Jones, Kinkade, Marshall, Matthias, Robinson

State v. Douglas

Opinion of the Court

MARSHALL, C. J.

On a charge of uttering and publishing a forged instrument with intent to defraud under section 13083, General Code, where the instrument was forged in the state of Ohio and thereupon transmitted by mail to a city in another state and such instrument was at all times in the possession or under the control of such forger and his agents until the same passed beyond the territorial borders of the state of Ohio, the crime of uttering and publishing is not complete in the state of Ohio.

Exceptions overruled.

Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.

Reference

Full Case Name
In the Matter of the Exceptions of the Prosecuting Attorney of Jefferson County, Ohio, in the case of State of Ohio v. Alexander C. Douglas
Status
Published