State v. Inman

Defendant was convicted by jury trial of knowingly uttering and publishing a forged bank check in violation of QBS 105.115. He appeals, asserting three assignments of error.

Both defendant and his wife were indicted for passing a forged bank check at a grocery store. The defendant husband was tried first. Before the trial began, the defense attorney told the prosecutor that the husband would claim his marital privilege (QBS 139.320) to prevent his wife from testifying if the prosecution called her as a witness. Knowing that her testimony would be thus objected to, the prosecution called the…