People v. Showers

—White, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County (Kane, J.), rendered July 6, 1992, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree.

Defendant’s conviction stems from his attempt to cash a check at the Jamesway Department Store located in the Village of Liberty, Sullivan County. When asked to produce identification, defendant showed the store’s customer service manager a document that was later determined to be a Village of Monticello hack driver’s license application. Because the document was not a…