State v. Vandenburg

Layton, C. J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The statute was designed to protect the public against a species of cheat. The evil of drawing and issuing checks on banks in which the drawer has no funds, or insufficient funds, has long been recognized, and, from time to time, statutes in varying forms have been enacted. In this, as, perhaps, in other states, it has been a matter of some difficulty to frame an act sufficiently adequate for the protection of the public against those fraudulently disposed, and, at the same time, to exclude from its operation, those innocent of an intent to…