Raybourn v. State

1 Plaintiff in error, William Robert Raybourn, defendant below, was charged by information in the District Court of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, with the crime of forgery in the first degree in violation of 21 O.S. 1951 ? 1561 [21-1561]. The information, in substance, alleged he feloniously forged a release to a mortgage covering a piece of residential property and caused the same to be filed and recorded in the office of the Pottawatomie County Clerk. The mortgage had been executed by the defendant and his wife in the sum of $15,000 to the Midwest Mortgage Company, hereinafter called the Mortgage Co., and assigned to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, hereinafter called the Insurance Co., which appeared to be the record owner thereof. He was tried by a jury, convicted, and his punishment fixed at seven years in the state penitentiary. Judgment and sentence were entered accordingly, from which this appeal has been perfected.