State v. Jones

PREWITT, Chief Judge.

Defendant was charged with forgery under § 570.090.1(1), RSMo 1978, for having endorsed a check, for $928.70 payable to Mary Wood, so that it purported to have been endorsed by Mary Wood. Following jury trial he was convicted and sentenced as a persistent offender to 10 years’ imprisonment. On appeal he presents two points relied on.

His first point states:

The trial court erred in denying Defendant’s Motion for Judgment of Acquittal and Defendant’s Motion for New Trial, because the State had not proved all of the elements of the crime charged, in that no evidence was…