Stone v. State

598 P.2d 72, 1979 Alas. LEXIS 530

• Court: Alaska Supreme Court
• Decided: July 27, 1979
• Docket: No. 4130
• Status: Published

Opinion

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Upon appellant’s plea of no contest to eleven counts of forgery,¹ the superior court imposed a sentence of four years on each count,² to run concurrently. Appellant was made eligible for parole at the discretion of the parole board.³ In this appeal she challenges the court’s sentence as excessive.⁴

Our review of the record fails to persuade us that the superior court was clearly mistaken in imposing the sanction that it did.⁵ Accordingly, its sentence is affirmed. McClain v. State, 519 P.2d 811 (Alaska 1974).

AFFIRMED.

1 . AS 11.25.020.

2 . Appellant was punishable upon each count by “imprisonment . for not less than one year nor more than 20 years.” Id.

3 . See AS 33.15.180.

4 . See AS 12.55.120(a); Rule 21, Alaska R.App.P.

5 . Stone was employed as a full charge bookkeeper, and by her forgeries she embezzled over $7,000 from her employer. The forgeries ín the present case commenced while she was still on probation from a 1975 conviction on a plea of guilty to three counts of embezzlement. Those offenses also involved forgeries of an employer’s checks. At that time over $78,000 of embezzled funds were traced to Stone’s bank account.