State v. Addison

The defendant, Eddie Addison, was found guilty by a jury of uttering a forged instrument. He was sentenced to 1 to 4 years in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex and this appeal followed.

On March 25, 1973, an attendant at a service station in Hemingford, Nebraska, delivered some $7 or $8 worth of gas and oil to a car in the station. Inside the service station a passenger from the car went through the motions of endorsing a check, and then gave it to the attendant and received the change in cash. The check was drawn on the Bank of Hemingford, Nebraska; dated March 25, 1973; in the…