PEARSON v. STATE

No. 1, September Term, 1969.

8 Md. App. 79 (1969)

258 A.2d 917

JON FREDERICK PEARSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Gwinn Miller for appellant.

T. Joseph Touhey, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and E. Allen Shepherd, Jr., Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant Jon Frederick Pearson was convicted by a jury of uttering a forged check and was sentenced to four years in the custody of the Department of Correction. From this judgment he appeals, alleging that the trial judge erred when he refused to instruct the jury, as requested, that to convict him for uttering a forged check, it must find that he knew the check was forged.

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