People v. Jackson

Defendant was convicted by a Detroit Recorder’s Court jury of one count of obtaining money under false pretenses, MCL 750.218; MSA 28.415, and two counts of uttering and publishing, MCL 750.249; MSA 28.446. He was sentenced to four to ten years imprisonment on the false pretenses conviction and 4 to 14 years on each of the uttering and publishing convictions. From these convictions and sentences, defendant appeals as of right under GCR 1963, 806.1.

Defendant raises four allegations of error in this appeal, which we shall address seriatim. First, defendant contends that his uttering and…