State v. Hardin

Defendant was convicted of the crime of forging the name of Tom Lorenzen as an endorsement on a warehouse receipt issued by the Boyd Union Elevator Company located in Wasco county, Oregon, to cover the storage of wheat owned by Tom Lorenzen. At the conclusion of the evidence the defendant moved for a directed verdict of acquittal for the reason, among others, that there was no evidence tending to show that the defendant signed the name of Tom Lorenzen to the warehouse receipt or that he had caused the same to be signed thereto.

We think a brief summary of the evidence will suffice to show that…