PEOPLE v. APPLEGATE

No. 25270.

509 P.2d 1238 (1973)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George APPLEGATE, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

As Modified May 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., John P. Moore, Deputy Atty. Gen., Jack E. Hanthorn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Rollie R. Rogers, Colo. State Public Defender, J. D. MacFarlane, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Kenneth J. Russell, Lee Belstock, Deputy State Public Defenders, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


DAY, Justice.

The sole issue presented on this appeal is whether the People proved—independent of defendant Applegate's confession—the corpus delicti on a charge of forgery. The record shows that the sole evidence offered by the People was through the testimony of two witnesses. One was a service station owner who identified the defendant as the person who had endorsed what appeared to be a pay roll check, and that it had been returned by the...

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