Every person who, with intent to defraud
another, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits, any charter, letters,
patent, deed lease, indenture, writing obligatory, will, testament, codicil,
annuity, bond, covenant, bank bill or note, federal reserve note, United
States currency or United States money, post note, check, draft, bill of
exchange, contract, promissory note, due bill for the payment of money or
property, receipt for money or property, passage ticket, power of attorney, or
any certificate of any share, right, or interest in the stock of any
corporation or association, or any state controller's warrant for the payment
of money at the treasury, county order or warrant, or request for the payment
of money, or the delivery of goods or chattels of any kind, or for the
delivery of any instrument of writing or acquittance, release, or receipt for
money or goods, or any acquittance, release, or discharge for any debt,
account, suit action demand, or other thing, real or personal, or any transfer
or assurance of money, certificates of shares of stock, goods, chattels, or
other property whatever, or any letter of attorney, or other power to receive
money, or to receive or transfer certificates of shares of stock or annuities,
or to let, lease, dispose of, alien, or convey any goods, chattels, lands or
tenements, or other estate, real or personal, or any acceptance or endorsement
of any bill of exchange, promissory note, draft, order, or assignment of any
bond, writing obligatory, or promissory note for money or other property, or
counterfeits or forges the seal or handwriting of another; or utters,
publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as true and genuine any of the above
named false, altered, forged or counterfeited matters, as above specified and
described, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited,
with intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud any person; or who, with intent
to defraud, alters, corrupts or falsifies any record of any will, codicil,
conveyance, or other instrument, the record of which is by law evidence, or
any record of any judgment of a court, or the return of any officer to any
process of any court, is guilty of forgery. |
