State v. White

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Defendant was charged by information with two counts of forgery with purpose to defraud by making two checks on or about April 20,1979, one in the amount of $189.00 and the other in the amount of $350.00, so that they purported to have been made by another. Section 570.090.1(1), RSMo 1978. On the morning of trial the state was granted leave, over the objection of defendant, to file an amended information. The amended information charged defendant with two counts of forgery with purpose to defraud by possessing the same two checks on or about April 20, 1979, for the purpose…