Barry v. State

SUBSTITUTED OPINION ON REHEARING

SMITH, Judge.

Barry appeals from judgments and concurrent sentences of commitment on charges of grand larceny and forgery. He contests the sufficiency of the evidence on both counts and asserts other errors.

Upon our initial consideration of the charge that Barry forged the signature of Mary Burtt Foster as an endorsement on a check payable to her, we erroneously conceived that the endorsement was written as “Mary Burtt Foster (JGB)” and that Barry intended thereby to reveal his authorship of the handwriting. In fact, as clearly appears by the State’s petition…