State v. Nelson

The appeal is from a judgment upon a peremptory verdict rendered by direction of the trial court at the close of the evidence for the State. The defendant was charged by an indictment in two counts: first with the offense of forging a cheek, and second with uttering the same instrument. The check was dated December 1, 1955, was payable to the order of Loretta M. Eslava, and was signed by Alberta J. Deegan. The, written part of the check was “Sixty six and 80/100 Dollars” and the figures in the usual place in the upper right-hand corner were “$66.80.” It is the State’s contention that the…