Nelson v. State

Appellant was found guilty generally by the court sitting without a jury on seven indictments, each of two counts charging, respectively, forgery and larceny of the checks forged. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on each conviction, the sentences to run concurrently. He claims on appeal, as he did below, that under the facts he committed neither crime.

Appellant did business as an individual under the trade name of The Nelson Co. at 1110 Division Street, Baltimore. His firm had sandblasted and restored a fire engine for The Glenn L. Martin Company in 1955, and had been paid in…