People v. Pettus

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William A. Wetzel, J.), rendered October 20, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of forgery in the second degree and two counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the *370first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 4 to 8 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant applied for food stamp benefits under his own name and two names that he had assumed. He was properly convicted of forgery in the second degree because, although there is no evidence that the two assumed names were names…