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STATE v. SMITH

No. 85-K-0066.

475 So.2d 331 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana v. Kenneth SMITH.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion September 18, 1985.

Rehearing Denied October 31, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., William Campbell, Mary Charlotte McMullan, Maria Lazarde Reuther, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-respondent.

Dwight Doskey, George Hesni, for defendant-applicant.

DENNIS, Justice.

The question presented by this case involves an interpretation of the criminal definition of forgery. La.R.S. 14:72. This criminal code section creates and defines the crime of forgery in two separate ways: (1) the false making or altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing purporting to have legal efficacy and (2) the issuing or transferring, with intent to defraud, of a forged writing, known by the offender to be a forged writing. We must decide...

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