State v. Lane

WORTHEN, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of the crime of issuing a fictitious check and he appeals. The check was drawn on the account of Walter Stevenson. Actually, there was such an account in the Continental Bank & Trust Co. and many checks had been drawn and honored on that account. However, there was no actual person named Walter Stevenson, but it was an assumed name used by Kevin Hanley. Hanley and Frank Clouse were named as co-defendants with Lane.

Hanley went to the bank and opened the account in the name of Walter Stevenson. A bank teller identified Hanley as Walter Stevenson. Hanley…