Sec. 249. (1) A person who utters and publishes as true a false, forged, altered, or counterfeit record, instrument, or other writing listed in section 248 knowing it to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeit with intent to injure or defraud is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 14 years. (2) This section does not apply to a scrivener's error.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.249
Forgery of records and other instruments; uttering and publishing; exception
Applied in 158 court decisions — leading case United States v. McDaniel (2005)
Most recently applied in Witzke v. Brewer (February 2017)
1931, Act 328, Eff
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