Title 16, Chapter 9, Section 1
( 16-9-1)
(a) A person commits the offense of forgery in the first degree when
with intent to defraud he knowingly makes, alters, or possesses any
writing in a fictitious name or in such manner that the writing as
made or altered purports to have been made by another person, at
another time, with different provisions, or by authority of one who
did not give such authority and utters or delivers such writing. (b) A person convicted of the offense of forgery in the first degree
shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more
than ten years. |