Pearson v. State

The appellant Jon Frederick Pearson was convicted by a jury of uttering a forged check and was sentenced to four years in the custody of the Department of Correction. From this judgment he appeals, alleging that the trial judge erred when he refused to instruct, the jury, as requested, that to convict him for uttering a forged check, it must find that he knew the check was forged.

On April 7, 1968, someone broke into an office trailer belonging to the Billy J. Walker Contracting Corporation in Prince George’s County, stealing a check writer and a quantity of corporate checks, numbers 6020…