Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall make any false entry, or shall falsely alter any entry made in any book of accounts kept in the office of the auditor of public accounts, or in the office of the treasurer of this state, or in the office of any county treasurer, or in any other public office, by which any demand or obligation, claim, right, or interest, either against or in favor of this state, or any county, city, town, or village, or any individual, shall be or purport to be discharged, diminished, increased, created, or in any manner affected, shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of forgery.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(34); 1857, ch. 64, art. 118; 1871, § 2582; 1880, § 2828; 1892, § 1107; 1906, § 1188; Hemingway's 1917, § 918; 1930, § 945; 1942, § 2174.
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