Finger v. State

Defendant (Appellant) was convicted in 1968 of uttering a forged check under Acts of 1905, ch. 169, § 676, 1956 Repl. Burns Ind. Stat. Ann. § 10-2102, IC 1971, 35-1-124-1. He was sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two nor more than fourteen years. His appeal to this Court is taken from an adverse ruling upon a belated motion to correct errors and presents two issues:(1) Insufficiency of the evidence.(2) Violation of his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel at his trial.

Neither issue has merit.(1) The evidence, viewed most favorably to the State, discloses that the defendant…