Section 97-21-19 - Corporate evidences of debt signed by pretended officer

The false making, forging, or counterfeiting of any evidence of debt issued, or purporting to have been issued, by any corporation having authority for that purpose, to which shall be affixed the pretended signature of any person as an agent or officer of such corporation, shall be forgery, in the same manner as if such person was at the time an officer or agent of such corporation, notwithstanding there never was any such person in existence.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(47); 1857, ch. 64, art. 129; 1871, § 2593; 1880, § 2838; 1892, § 1117; 1906, § 1198; Hemingway's 1917, § 928; 1930, § 955; 1942, § 2185.