Ballensky v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of forging and uttering a bank check for $21.00 and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of one to five years. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ alleging two reversible errors: 1. Insufficiency of the evidence. 2. Former jeopardy.

1. This contention rests solely on the fact that defendant’s mother testified he had, and always had, authority to write such checks, and that checks so written were “made good.” The check here in question bore the signature of defendant’s mother with no indication that it was…