United States v. Loretta Marshall

By a multi 12 count indictment Loretta Marshall was charged and tried — in the even numbered counts of having forged endorsement to six government checks and the odd numbered counts with uttering and publishing these checks — in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 495. For want of proof of passing these checks the Government dismissed the uttering counts and the Court dismissed counts 1, 3, and 5 of the forging counts and simultaneously withdrew the related exhibits (4, 5, and 6) comprising the checks of those counts. Appellant attacks the conviction for an asserted error in the Court’s charge on…