Glass v. People

EDWARD J. BYRNE, District Judge*,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Defendant Leon Glass was convicted by a jury of forgery in the passing of a check. The facts revealed by the record disclose that on the morning of September 16, 1968, a man, later identified as the defendant, purchased a shirt at Henry’s Department Store in Rifle, Colorado. In payment, he gave the clerk, Mrs. Herwick, a check drawn on the account of James Martin in the amount of $25. The defendant was the payee and he endorsed the check in Mrs. Herwick’s presence. Mrs. Herwick also testified that she saw the defendant later…