New York Court of Appeals April 30, 1912 (People v. . Marrin)

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Cullen, Ch. J. (dissenting):

The appellant was indicted for and convicted of the crime of forgery in the first degree under section 510 of the Penal Code, by which it is enacted that “ An officer authorized to take the proof of acknowledgment of an instrument which by law may be recorded, who willfully certifies falsely that the execution of such an instrument was acknowledged by any party