State v. Peeples

Citations

• 65 Wash. 673
• 118 P. 906
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 994

Syllabus

<p>Forgery — Evidence—Sufficiency—Weight op Notary’s Certifícate. A notary’s certificate showing that a mortgage was executed and acknowledged by the grantors is sufficiently overcome by their direct testimony that they did not execute it to make a question for the jury as to the fact of forgery.</p> <p>Forgery — Uttering — Presumption of Guilty Knowledge — Instructions. In a prosecution for uttering a forged mortgage, an instruction that the fact of forgery is a circumstance from which guilty knowledge is presumed, unless rebutted, invades the province of the jury and is reversible error.</p>