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TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, Plaintiff-Appellee
v.
FRANCISCO K. MOREI, Defendant-Appellant
Criminal Appeal No. 93
Appellate Division of the High Court
November 7, 1983
Appeal of conviction for forgery. The Appellate Division of the High Court, per curiam, held that complaint was adequate to inform defendant of the charges, evidence at trial was sufficient to uphold conviction, and defense that endorsement of check was made in an agency capacity was without merit, and therefore conviction was affirmed.
For a criminal complaint to stand as sufficient, all that is required is that it adequately inform the defendant of the charge or charges against which he has to defend, and that it be specific enough to support a claim of double jeopardy for future prosecution for the same conduct.
Whether a criminal complaint is sufficient is to be determined by practical rather than technical considerations.
Criminal complaint charging forgery was clearly sufficient, where it charged an intent to defraud each of five named payees. (11 TTC § 701)
Standard of review in a criminal case in the Trust Territory to a challenge of the sufficiency of the evidence is whether there is substantial credible evidence on the record as a whole to support the verdict, even though there is evidence to the contrary.
Circumstantial evidence may be sufficient to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
On review of a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case, the evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom are viewed in a light most favorable to the government.
Ample evidence existed to support defendant's conviction for forgery. (11 TTC § 701)
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