Martin v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellant, Hershel Doyle Martin, was tried and convicted on four counts of theft of property in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-2203 (Repl. 1977). The charges stem from separate incidents on August 26, 1978, in which counterfeit checks purportedly issued by A. Tenenbaum Company, Inc., were cashed at separate branches of Twin City Bank by a man representing himself to be the payee, James Jackson. The checks were in the amount of $3,582.51, $3,870.20, $3,672.15 and $1,875.50. They bore a facsimile signature of Jean Gann, Tenenbaum’s bookkeeper, who testified that while…