Legal Opinion
State v. Jenkins
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided December 11, 1995No. 22722PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McHUGH, Chief Justice:
The appellant, Elizabeth Ladybird Jenkins, appeals the October 14, 1994 order of the Circuit Court of Lewis County which sentenced her to one to ten years in the West Virginia Penitentiary after she was convicted by a jury of uttering a forged check in violation of W.Va.Code, 61-4-5 [1961]. 1 For rea-' sons stated below, we reverse the appellant’s conviction and grant her a new trial.
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At trial a store clerk from the Giant Eagle, a grocery store in Weston, testified that the appellant signed a check with the name Emerson Herrod and presented it to her for the goods the…
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