Coggins v. State

The indictment against this appellant, and upon which he was tried and convicted, was for the offense denounced by section 4158 of the Code 1923: it charged that he, “with intent to defraud, did make or utter a check or draft upon the Barbour County Bank of Louisville, Alabama, a corporation, for the sum of sixty-five dollars payable to the Burch Motor Company, a partnership composed of W. C. Adams and J. S. Burch, said check or draft being dated November 23, 1926, the said Ben Coggins knowing at the time of making or uttering, that he had no funds or insufficient funds in said bank with…