Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case State v. Hite (2014)
Most recently applied in 340 Or. App. 263 - State v. Rojas-Huerta (April 2025)
1971 c.743 §155; 2005 c.761 §2
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person commits the crime of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree if, knowing it to be forged and with intent to utter same, the person possesses a forged instrument of the kind and in the amount specified in ORS 165.013 (1).
(2) Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree is a Class C felony.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.