Reed v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal was submitted on May 12, 1966, on written argument.

Reed was indicted by the Grand Jury of Montgomery County for forging a check purportedly drawn on the Union Bank and Trust Company, payable to one Grover C. Carpenter in the amount of $94.46, and signed by “Thomason & Associates, Inc., Contractors by Larry P. Mitchell.”

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Some unknown person broke into the office of the contracting firm of M. R. Thomason in Montgomery, Alabama, the night of January 14-15, 1965. In consequence thereof a number of payroll checks disappeared. The next afternoon Reed showed up in a grocery…