State v. Bigelow

I. The check which the defendant is charged with having uttered, purports to have been drawn upon the German Savings Bank of Des Moines by one “Geo. C. Newman, Sec’y/’ and is made payable to Knudt Engebredtsen. It was delivered- to the payee by the defendant in payment of a board bill, late on a Saturday night, with the expectation on the part of defendant that it would be cashed by Engebredtsen, and a part of the proceeds returned to defendant, as it called for a larger sum than was due the payee thereof. Some question arose as to the genuineness of the signature of the drawer, and defendant…