Patterson v. State

The defendant appellant having been informed against under the name of J. C. Covington, on arraignment announced his true name to be W. H. Patterson, and the trial proceeded against him under the latter name. Under an information dated December 14, 1922 (we give its substance only), defendant was charged with knowingly and feloniously obtaining $50, lawful money of the United States, from Mrs. J. B. Armer, with intent to defraud her by making, uttering and delivering to her a draft on the Standard Medicine Company of Los Angeles, California, in words and figures as follows:

he, the said…