State v. Addison

The defendant was found guilty by a jury on a charge of having, on December 27, 1974, uttered a forged instrument. He was sentenced to a term of 1 year in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex with credit being given for 102 days jail time served while awaiting trial. On this appeal he asserts the insufficiency of the evidence to support the jury verdict. This contention rests on two grounds: (1) The evidence does not establish the defendant’s identity as the utterer; and (2) the evidence does not show the defendant knew the instrument was forged.

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