McClain v. State

A jury found Terry Earl McClain guilty of forgery in the second degree of a check in the face amount of $200.00 in violation of Alabama Criminal Code § 13A-9-3, which classifies the offense as a Class C felony, which is punishable in accordance with § 13A-5-6 (a)(3) at imprisonment for "not more than 10 years or less than 1 year and 1 day." The court sentenced him to imprisonment for thirteen months, suspended his sentence, and placed him on supervised probation.

The check involved as allegedly forged was purportedly a check drawn by Alford K. Hardy on Maxwell-Gunter Federal Credit Union, as…