Pike v. State

Raymond Pike was charged as an accessory before the fact in the forgery of a check for thirty-five dollars drawn on the First National Bank of Casper and purporting to be signed by D. E. Leggett on one of his printed check blanks. Defendant waived a jury and after trial was found guilty by the court. He has appealed, charging that the evidence if proving anything shows him to be guilty as a principal rather than as an accessory before the fact; his wife was called by the State as a witness against him; the State’s case was based upon the testimony of one John Oien, an alleged accomplice; the…