Supreme Court of Missouri October 15, 1874 (State v. Fisher)

Sherwood, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

An indictment charging: “ That one Joseph Eislier, on the 12th day of May, A. D. 1874 at, etc., did then and there unlawfully and feloniously forge, and falsely alter a certain instrument of writing usually known as a Dunklin County-Patent, which, said patent was numbered “ ninety-one,” and purported to be the act of Moses Farrar, president of