Section 97-21-25 - Engraving or possessing plate for printing bank check, note or other evidence of debt; when plate deemed imitation of genuine instrument

Every plate specified in Section 97-21-23, shall be deemed to be in the form and similitude of the genuine instrument imitated, in either of the following cases: When the engraving on such plate resembles and is intended to conform to such parts of the genuine instrument as are engraved; or when such plate shall be partly finished, and the part so finished resembles and is intended to conform to similar parts of the genuine instrument.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(31); 1857, ch. 64, art. 115; 1871, § 2579; 1880, § 2825; 1892, § 1104; 1906, § 1185; Hemingway's 1917, § 915; 1930, § 942; 1942, § 2171.