JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 7175.

234 F.2d 812 (1956)

Ottis Mayo JONES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney for appellant.

J. Jefferson Miller, II, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Walter E. Black, Jr., U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, SOPER, Circuit Judge, and MOORE, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal in a criminal case in which appellant was convicted and sentenced for the crime of interstate transportation of forged securities in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314. The securities involved were drafts payable to appellant and purporting to be signed by M. J. Watson. Watson was the name of a fictitious person; and the signing of that name by appellant was the forgery alleged. Forgery may be predicated of the use of an assumed or fictitious...

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