Payton v. United States

Appellant was convicted on three counts of forgery and three counts of uttering and given concurrent sentences of six to 18 months on each count. He contends on appeal that the trial court erred in refusing to grant his motion for judgment of acquittal on the forgery counts and in giving the jury an instruction on aiding and abet ting on those counts when he had been charged in the indictment solely as a principal and there was no evidence that someone other than defendant had committed the forgery. 1

There was evidence that appellant gave to three of his employees special police officer…