State v. Thompson

SADLER, Justice.

The defendant, appellant in this court, seeks through appeal the reversal of a judgment of conviction rendered against him by the district court of Valencia county. He was tried on change of venue from Socorro ■county. The jury found him guilty of the offense charged, to wit, issuance of a fraudulent check, and he was sentenced to a term of years in the state penitentiary.

Since the decision, as we view the matter, turns upon the correctness of the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, interposed at close of state’s case in chief, upon which ruling…