State v. Streit

Defendant, Robert Streit, was indicted for uttering and publishing a forged cheek in violation of section, 718.2 of the Code of Iowa, 1954. A jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term not to exceed ten years. Upon appeal he assigns as error the trial court’s ruling permitting a bank cashier to testify as to his opinion of the sameness of signatures on a bank signature card and the uttered instrument before the court. While it is now contended such evidence was inadmissible, the defendant’s objection made in the trial of the case, and upon which he must now rely…