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MARTIN v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 80-457, 80-585.

435 A.2d 395 (1981)

Earline MARTIN, a/k/a Earline Taylor, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. James L. KING, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 3, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry L. Dier, Clarksville, Md., appointed by this court, was on the brief for appellant Martin.

Frances B. Aubrey, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant King.

Peggy M. Tobolowsky, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D.C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before KELLY and KERN, Associate Judges, and PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants challenge their convictions for forgery and uttering on the grounds that their acts of signing their own names to blank money orders known by them to have been stolen do not constitute forgery within the meaning of D.C.Code 1973, § 22-1401.1

There was evidence that on the evening of November 6, 1978, a young woman purchased two American express money orders...

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