State v. Ross

KEEFE, Senior Judge.

The defendant, Larry E. Ross, also known as Roger Leroy Johnson, was employed at Monfort Meat Packing in Marshalltown, Iowa, from September 25,1989, to December 22, 1989. He was terminated on December 28, 1989, for failure to show for work for three days. It was Monfort’s practice to pay employees with printed checks which were prepared and signed by a computer printer.

In January 1990, Douglas Knowles, the Monfort plant comptroller, was contacted by local police in Davenport, Iowa, and informed that someone was illegally passing Monfort checks in Davenport. At that time…