People v. Hampton

The defendant was convicted by a jury of uttering and publishing a forged check. MCLA 750.249; MSA 28.446.

A Kroger store employee in Ann Arbor informed her supervisor that defendant had just presented a *73check and identification belonging to a former store employee. The defendant becoming suspicious left the store with the check and identification. The supervisor then alerted other area Kroger stores. Defendant subsequently presented the check to an alerted employee of another Kroger store and she notified her supervisor. That supervisor questioned defendant and called the police. The…