State v. Ward

WARD, Judge.

Michael D. Ward was charged with violating La.R.S. 14:72 by forging a credit application for Rosenberg’s Furniture Store. That part of the statute pertinent to this case defines forgery as “the false making or altering, with intent to defraud, of any signature to, or any part of, any writing purporting to have legal efficacy.” Ward filed a motion to quash the bill of information on the grounds that the credit application was not a “writing purporting to have legal efficacy” within the meaning of the forgery statute. The Trial Judge granted the motion to quash, and the State has…