Forgery

Is it possible to forge a signature by simply making a cross in the place where the signature should be? In Lessley vs. the State, the Supreme Court of Alabama held that it is.

Lessley made out a check, made two cross marks, signed his own name as attesting witness, and then put beneath the cross-marks the names "Bob & Lila Casper." It was not forgery to write his own name, or to write the names of the two Gaspers, but, the Court held, it was forgery to make the cross-marks, which would have made the Gaspers liable if the forgery had not been discovered.