Hamilton v. State

Deen, Judge.

1. The defendant was indicted under Code Ann. § 13-9933 for uttering and delivering to the Citizens Bank of Hapeville for deposit a check drawn on the Trust Company of Georgia in the sum of $10,000, knowing there were insufficient funds on deposit to cover it, with intent to defraud, as a result of its reliance on which the Citizens Bank paid out funds and sustained a loss of $6,428.07. The evidence is undisputed that the bank lost this amount of money by honoring checks in reliance on the defendant’s apparent bank deposit balance, but the defendant contends that the loss occurred…