State v. Chance

OPINION

BIRCH, Judge.

The defendant, Merle Chance, was convicted by a Stewart County jury of thirty-nine counts of fraud and false dealing. 1 The trial judge sentenced defendant to two years on each forgery and fraudulent breach of trust count, and three years on each embezzlement and false bookkeeping entry count. Chance was ordered to serve the first four months of the sentence in the local jail and the remaining portion on probation. Since all sentences are concurrent, the defendant has an effective sentence of three years, with probation to follow the initial four-month confinement.

Chance…