State v. Simones

This is an appeal from a conviction of the defendant of two counts of uttering a forged instrument (R. C. 2913.01).

One instrument is a check drawn on the Richwood Banking Co., Richwood, Ohio, payable to one Leonard Richardson in the amount of $85.00. All blank parts of the check except the signature and the endorsement were completed by typewriter. It is undisputed that the signature of the maker was forged. The check was cashed by a cashier at a party shop who testified that she didn’t remember whether the defendant endorsed the check and that the name of Leonard Richardson could have been…