State v. Kihlstrom

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

¶ 1 Defendant appeals his conviction for forgery, a third degree felony, in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-501 (Supp.1999), 1 claiming that the State failed to present a prima facie case of uttering a forged check in its case-in-chief. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 In the fall of 1996, Furst Construction (Furst) discovered that unauthorized checks, with numbers in the 18,000s, were being drawn on its account. It then discovered several checks had been stolen. Furst notified the police, put stop payment orders on all checks in the 18,000 series, and closed the related bank…