State v. Smith

Citations

• 77 Wash. 441
• 137 P. 1008
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 920

Syllabus

<p>Forgery — Certificate . of Identification — Information — Sufficiency. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2583, with reference to the forgery of any “writing or instrument for the identification of a person,” an information for the forgery of a certificate of identification of a workman on a railroad, showing on its face that it is such an identification certificate and one specifically prohibited to he forged, need not contain any extrinsic averments showing in what manner it was capable of being used; especially where it shows on its face that, if accepted as true by a disbursing agent empowered to issue pay checks, it might work a fraud upon the agent or the company.</p>