State v. Barnard

Olsen, C.

Defendant was convicted of forgery in the second degree and appeals from the judgment of conviction.

It is urged that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction. That a series of nine or more checks, purporting to be made by H. M. Noack & Sons, at Morton, Minnesota, were forged and negotiated in Brown and neighboring counties in this state, is undisputed. Most of the checks were uttered and negotiated during the period from March 8 to March 12, 1928. The charge is that this defendant uttered and disposed of one of the checks at New Ulm, Minnesota, on March 12.

Defendant and…