Donald v. State

This is an appeal from a criminal conviction in the Circuit Court of Neshoba County, Mississippi. WILLIAM DONALD was convicted of uttering a forged check and sentenced to serve ten years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Donald appeals, assigning as error:

I. Evidence of other crimes, to-wit: other utterings of forgeries, allegedly committed by the appellant, were erroneously admitted into evidence at trial; and

II. The verdict was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence.

On June 6, 1983, Donald allegedly drove to the Peoples Bank of Mississippi, Valley View…