State v. Perkins

ON REHEARING

WATSON, Justice.*

Defendant, Lionel Perkins, Jr., was convicted by a jury of two counts of forgery, *783and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Both conviction and sentence were affirmed per curiam on November 29, 1979. A rehearing was granted to consider whether Perkins was properly convicted of two counts of forgery and whether the sentence imposed is excessive.1

On September 20, 1974, Perkins went to the First National Bank of Commerce in Downtown New Orleans with a GAC Finance Company check for $1,800. The check was payable to Dudley P. Guillot, and appeared to be signed by J.…