Patterson v. State

Information was filed against appellant in the name of the State of Arkansas by the prosecuting attorney of the Fifteenth Judicial District of Arkansas, before a justice of the peace, for drawing a check on the First National Bank of Fort Smith for $7.50,-which check was dishonored because appellant had no money in said bank subject to check. The information was preferred under act 304 of the Acts of 1929 amending act 258 of the General Assembly of 1913.

This court held in the case of Smith v. State, 147 Ark. 49, 226 S. W. 531, that it was not an offense to give a post-dated check. The amended…