State v. Jones

The defendant was convicted of forgery. The sole question presented on this appeal is the excessiveness of the sentence.

The defendant, a woman 22 years of age, on the date of sentencing, was sentenced to imprisonment for an indeterminate period of 1 to '2 years for the crime of uttering a forged instrument. The record shows that the defendant in a short period of time contemporaneous with the particular offense to which she pled guilty, uttered and cashed about $600 worth of checks at various grocery stores, department stores, etc. The defendant used two different check books, one the…