State v. Eide

Defendant was charged, tried to a jury and convicted of grand larceny and attempted grand larceny, both by bank money order. He has appealed.

The evidence as to each count was substantially the same. Bank money orders of the National Bank of Commerce had been stolen from the printers. These money orders were essentially in the form of checks and required *790the signature of the bank’s customer as drawer, the. name-of the payee, and the payee’s endorsement. For control purposes,-the checks were to have been serialized, but this had not yet been accomplished when they were stolen.

The first order…