Law v. State

624 P.2d 284 (1981)

Jay Lowell LAW, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

No. 4552.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 27, 1981.

Bruce Heller, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

William D. Cook, Asst. Dist. Atty., Larry R. Weeks, Dist. Atty., Anchorage and Avrum Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice. [BOOCHEVER, J., not participating.]

OPINION

Jay Law had financial problems. One day in January 1978, he tried to sole his money problem by kiting checks,[1] and found…