State v. Ravenna

(Ret.), Specially Assigned. The defendant was charged with uttering a forged instrument under 13 V.S.A. § 1802. After a jury trial she was convicted of that offense and appealed. The core of her appeal relates to the element of knowledge required to be proved under 13 V.S.A. § 1802:

A person who utters and publishes as true a forged, altered or counterfeited record, deed, instrument or other writing mentioned in section 1801 of this title, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeited, with intent to injure or defraud a person, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years and…