State v. Satterfield

The opinion of the court was delivered by

O’Connor, J.:

The defendant, Charles E. Satterfield, has appealed from his conviction of uttering and passing a forged instrument (K. S. A. 21-609) on the ground there was insufficient evidence to sustain the verdict. Specifically, the contention is advanced that there was no substantial evidence from which the jury could infer that the defendant had knowledge the instrument was forged.

The state’s case disclosed that on May 29, 1966, the defendant went to Walls I. G. A. store in Wichita and cashed a U. S. Treasury check made payable to Dorman and Bobby…