State v. Sianez

McFARLAND, Chief Justice:

Two informations were filed against defendant-appellant, Manuel Duran Sianez, each charging him with the crime of forgery on a different date. The two cases were consolidated for trial, and defendant was found guilty of both crimes. He was given a sentence of ten years to ten years and one day on each, the sentences to run concurrently.

The evidence showed that some Travelers Express money orders had been stolen from the locked store of James Wiltshire, in Indio, California, and that, before the theft, the money orders were blank. James Stuard, a State witness,…