State v. Adamson

EAGER, Judge.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of the forgery of a check. The court, finding that he had been convicted and imprisoned for prior felonies, sentenced him to a term of ten years in a correctional institution. Much of the State’s evidence came from two men who admitted participation in the preparation and passing of the series of checks out of which the present charge arose. One of these was Moss Edward Shoemaker; the other, Albert Wendell Hall. Shoemaker lived in Mexico, Missouri; Hall in St. Louis.

The evidence was such that the facts now related could be found therefrom.…