Emerson v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, Sr. J.:

Appellant Janet Emerson was convicted of forgery (NRS 205.090), upon a jury verdict. She contends that the judgment of conviction should be reversed on the basis of (1) the failure of the trial court to give the jury any instruction regarding evidence of her “good character,” and (2) prosecutorial misconduct. We agree.

At trial, the state presented the testimony of Mr. Clay Sims, an elderly resident of Clark County, to the effect that in October, 1977, he had been called by his bank with an inquiry about one of his checks. At that point, he testified, he…