McMahan v. State

Following a bench trial in the Dubois Circuit Court, appellant McMahan was found guilty on five counts of forgery and of being an habitual criminal. On August 8, 1977, the court sentenced McMahan to five concurrent terms of two to fourteen years imprisonment for the forgery convictions and to life imprisonment on the habitual offender count.

The evidence adduced at trial reveals that during July and August of 1976, appellant was employed as a janitor for Plunk’s Janitorial Service of Tell City, Indiana. As part of his employment, appellant was assigned to do cleaning work at night in the…