Shapley v. State

*185OPINION

After being injured on the job and unable to work defendant Billy Ray Shapley was terminated by his employer, Delta Drilling Company, at which time he received a draft from the job foreman for wages owing to him. Following his departure from the drilling site in Utah near Montello, Nevada, it was discovered that the draft book which had been used to pay the defendant was missing. This book contained sequential drafts, five of which subsequently appeared with forged signatures in Wells, Nevada.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of five counts of forgery by uttering a forged instrument…