United States v. Smith

WATSON, Chief Judge.

This is a motion by defendant to dismiss a criminal information. Count One of the information charges the defendant with having forged an endorsement on an United States treasury check with intent to defraud the United States in violation, of Title 18 U.S.C. § 471; Count Two charges utterance of the check with the forged endorsement in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 472.

Defendant contends that both of these sections have to do with the forgery of governmental obligations and not endorsements thereon, and that the crime, if any, committed by the -defendant was a forgery of…