State v. Anderson

MAUS, Judge.

The defendant was charged with uttering a forged check under former § 561.011, V.A. M.S. He was found guilty by a jury. Under th^ Second Offender Act he was sentenced by the court to five years’ imprisonment. In view of the defendant’s points on appeal, a brief summary of the evidence and reasonable inferences therefrom is sufficient for this review.

Sometime after January 20, 1978, a pad of printed checks for the account of Southwestern Bell disappeared from the desk of supervisory employee C. W. Forshee. On *594January 25, 1978, a young black male presented one of those checks to a…