People v. Long

Opinion

FRIEDMAN, J.

A jury found defendant guilty of passing a $45 forged check. He appeals from the judgment. He assigns error in the admission in evidence of three forged checks other than that on which the accusation was based.

The $45 check was presented to and cashed by Victor Kauck, a store owner, in August 1968. The maker was fictitious, or at least had no account at the drawee bank. Jerry Willoughby was payee. At the trial Kauck identified defendant as the person who had, in his presence, indorsed the check with Willoughby’s name and had followed the indorsement with a fictitious…