State v. Nelson

DOWD, Judge.

Defendant appeals after a jury convicted him of three counts of forgery in violation of § 570.090.1(4), RSMo 1986, for which he was sentenced as a persistent offender to concurrent ten-year sentences on each count. Also consolidated within this action, Defendant appeals the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion. We affirm.

The facts viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict reveal Defendant went to a pharmacy and filled a fraudulent prescription for Didrex written on a counterfeit prescription pad to a fictitious person at a fictitious address. Didrex, a Schedule III controlled…