Wallace v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

In two counts the Franklin County grand jury indicted the defendant and two code-fendants, Kenneth Roberts and his wife, Joyce Roberts, for forgery and passing forged papers over the value of $100. At the trial his codefendants testified for the state. The petit jury found the defendant guilty under the second count of passing forged papers and fixed his punishment at three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He appeals to this court.

The state’s proof showed that the defendant and his codefendants on December 12, 1970, bought a number of articles totaling…