State v. Wellard

WADE, Justice.

Defendant, Lester Davey Wellard, appeals from a jury verdict finding him guilty of issuing a fictitious check. He urges three grounds for reversal; 1) insufficiency of the evidence to sustain a finding that the check was fictitious, 2) erroneously instructing and refusal to instruct the jury, and 3) receiving inadmissible evidence.

Defendant passed the check in question at a gasoline station in Salt Lake City. It was for $12, drawn on the First Security Bank of Ogden, with the name Frank Adams written as maker. The bank refused to cash the check because it had no such account.…