Singleton v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Singleton was convicted on five counts of forgery involving the negotiation of stolen checks and altered money orders. Singleton had been apprehended shortly after leaving the scene of the last of the alleged transactions, and was identified at trial by multiple witnesses as the person who had purchased and presented the forged instruments. Enumerated as error is the admission of certain testimony which allegedly placed appellant’s character in issue.

Examination of the trial transcript reveals that a staff member of the halfway house where appellant lived for a…