Brown v. State

Felton, Chief Judge.

1. Knowledge that the instrument is forged is an essential ingredient of the crime of uttering a forged instrument. Code Ann. § 26-3910 (Cobb, 803; Ga. L. 1959, pp. 252, 253); Couch v. State, 28 Ga. 367; Stephens v. State, 56 Ga. 604; Rowland v. State, 90 Ga. App. 742, 743 (84 SE2d 209), and cit.

2. Where the jury found the defendant not guilty of forgery of a check in spite of the testimony of a handwriting expert that the endorsement on the check was made by the defendant, *828where the only evidence that the check is a forgery is the bank’s marking thereon, “Unable to locate…