State v. Sanford

GUNN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of uttering a forged instrument in violation of § 561.011 RSMo 1969.1 On appeal he assigns two points of alleged error: (1) that he was precluded from presenting evidence to establish that he had not made any writing on the instrument; (2) that during closing argument, the prosecutor made improper reference to defendant’s failure to present evidence. We find no error and affirm the judgment.

The evidence supporting defendant’s conviction was that he had appeared at the credit cashier window in the Famous-Barr department store in downtown St. Louis and…