State v. Bailey

PREWITT, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of forging a $600 check and he was sentenced as a persistent offender to twelve years’ imprisonment.

The first point we discuss is defendant’s contention that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict. He bases this contention on a claim that there was no direct evidence that he wrote the check, possessed it, or ever had it under his control and because Robert Phelps, whom defendant calls the state’s “main witness”, was an admitted perjurer, and because the state’s handwriting expert was contradicted by defendant’s handwriting…