State v. Fields

| .PER CURIAM.

With the question of defendant/relator’s guilt turning at trial on whether he was aware that his girlfriend purchased sound equipment for him with a forged check, the Fifth Circuit upheld the trial court’s verdict of attempted forgery on grounds that relator possessed the requisite guilty knowledge to support his conviction as a principal. State v. Fields, 01-0862 (La.App. 5th Cir.12/12/01), 801 So.2d 1278 (“[T]he judge found the circumstances excluded every reasonable hypothesis of innocence, including the defense theory of the case, that defendant did not know that *317his…