Mays v. People

Opinion by

DONALD A. CARPENTER, District Judge*.

Plaintiff in error, Otis Odell Mays, defendant in the trial court, will be referred to as defendant herein. Defendant in error will be referred to herein as the People.

The record discloses the following facts leading to the defendant’s conviction of the crime of forgery.

On June 22, 1967, the defendant admittedly signed and cashed a Traveler’s Express money order in the amount of $50 at the Red Rooster Inn in Adams County. The defendant contended that the Traveler’s Express money order had been given to him by one Carl Lee Miller, although the…