STATE v. COLBY


361 A.2d 256 (1976)

STATE of Maine v. Barry COLBY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

July 21, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Stolt, Arthur Stilphen, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, R. John Wuesthoff, Asst. Dist. Atty., Keith Doyon, Law Student, William P. Donahue, Dist. Atty., Alfred, for plaintiff.

Paul H. Elkins, Cape Elizabeth, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD and DELAHANTY, JJ.


DELAHANTY, Justice.

This case is before us on defendant Barry Colby's appeal from a judgment of conviction entered against him upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of cheating by false pretenses.1 We deny the appeal.

On the evening of March 29, 1974, Linda Rousseau, a cashier at the "First National" supermarket in Biddeford cashed a check for $157.43 for a man who represented himself as the payee, "James Roberts." The drawee...

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