Denker v. State

Aldrich, J-i

*780The defendant, Fred IT. Denker, was convicted of the crime of forgery in Douglas county in January, 1921, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary from one to twenty years. Defendant prosecutes error.

The main contentions of the plaintiff in error are: First, that the county attorney improperly examined him as..to his former conviction of forgery; and, second, that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the court.

We note first that defendant appeared as a witness for himself. That being true, he is subjected to the same rules of…