Turner v. Brenner

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Brenner was a flour broker and Turner was the proprietor of a bakery. Under circumstances hereinafter mentioned, Turner gave Brenner a check for $307.50 in payment for twenty-five bags of flour. The cheek was not paid, payment being refused by the bank for want of funds to Turner’s credit, and Brenner, undertaking to proceed under what is known as the bad check law (Acts 1920, page 561), procured a warrant against Turner charging him with larceny of the flour. The result was that Turner was arrested on a felony charge, sent on to the grand jury,…