Nestor A. Tafoya v. United States

Tafoya appeals from a judgment and sentence entered after a jury found him guilty of intending to defraud by passing, uttering and publishing a forged and counterfeited United States Postal Money Order in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 500. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

The government’s evidence showed the United States Postal Money Order here involved was stolen in blank in a burglary of a United States Post Of fice. The evidence also showed the appellant was apprehended in the act of attempting to pass the money order to a grocery store by forging the endorsement of one Willie Gonzales.…