SCHNACKE, District Judge.
Donald Thompson, after a jury trial, was adjudged guilty of forging the name of a payee on a United States treasury check, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 495. He appeals.
It is not denied that Thompson, in July 1977, took a treasury check payable to one Olden Howard, signed Howard's name on the back of the check, and cashed the check at a bank. At trial, Thompson claimed that he cashed the check with Howard's permission. Howard...
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