People v. Paradise

Kane, J. P.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of St. Lawrence County (Duskas, J.), rendered April 19,1984, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of forgery in the second degree.

*1080Defendant is accused of forging and presenting for payment a check drawn upon the account of Cowen’s Country Store, Inc., in the St. Lawrence National Bank (bank) by Daniel Cowen, payable to Thomas Sullivan in the sum of $267.89 and indorsed with the name Thomas Sullivan.

The teller at the bank, Debra Davis, to whom the check was presented, determined that there was a “watch” on the account, resulting…