Mississippi Supreme Court October 15, 1886 (Whyte v. Mills)

Coopee, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The court properly instructed the jury to find for the defendant. The answer to all the propositions advanced by the appellant is that Davis, the deputy clerk, was not engaged in doing any act for his principal in issuing the forged warrants, but was engaged in an unlawful scheme of his own, in the consummation of which he forged the name of the