State v. Kizer

*240LINDE, J.

Under the 1971 revision of the Oregon Criminal Code, a person commits forgery if “with intent to injure or defraud, the person:

“(a) Falsely makes, completes or alters a written instrument; or

“(b) Utters a written instrument which the person knows to be forged.”

ORS 165.007(1). A later statute, ORS 161.062(1), provides:

“When the same conduct or criminal episode violates two or more statutory provisions and each provision requires proof of an element that the others do not, there are as many separately punishable offenses as there are separate statutory violations. * * *.”1

The question…