State v. Schaffer

Barnett, J. † —

The defendants, Larry and Ann Schaffer, husband and wife, are charged with five counts of forgery in the first degree. From a judgment of conviction based upon the verdict of the jury, they appeal to this court.

This stems from another crime, the burglary of over 400 blank money orders from Big John’s Thriftway in Seattle in March, 1965. These money orders could be cashed up to the value of $150 each. Many of the money orders have been cashed in Seattle and in other geographically diverse cities as Portland, Oregon and Kansas City, Missouri.

The testimony elicited by the…