Illinois Rural Credit Ass'n v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “mere possession of forged documents, without evidence of an intent to injure or defraud, cannot sustain a forgery conviction”
• concluding that Vasquez's statements to security guard were patently ambiguous and did not support inference of intent to injure or defraud
• rejecting the “‘substantial evidence standard in determining the sufficiency of the evidence because it does not require proof beyond a reasonable doubt’”
• “We have rejected a substantial evidence standard in determining the sufficiency of the evidence because it does not require proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• defendant’s admission to possession of forged documents was equivocal evidence of “intent to injure or defraud”
• in forgery cases where the State proved intent to defraud, the defendants “actually demonstrated intent to pass off their forged documents as authentic”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).