People v. Hidalgo

On each of six separate counts of an information filed against him defendant was convicted of the crime of forgery. From the ensuing judgment, as well as from an order by which his motion for a new trial was denied, defendant appeals to this court.

In each count of the information the instrument alleged to have been forged and “passed” was a check on Seaboard National Bank of Los Angeles, purportedly drawn by “Baker Ice Machine Company, L. Baker, H. Spencer.” The. only variations that distinguished any one of such checks from either of the others were its serial number, its date, the amount…