State v. Mancuso

Defendant was indicted for forgery in the first degree, in violation of ORS 165.013, in five separate indictments, each charging defendant with forgery on a different date. The indictments were based on repeated forgeries of the same signature using the same credit card to purchase gasoline for the same car from the same service station during a five-week period.

The prosecutor did not move to consolidate the charges. Defendant was tried and convicted of one charge. Before his second forgery trial, defendant moved to dismiss the remaining four indictments on the ground of former jeopardy.…