People v. Battle

Defendant-respondent was convicted by a jury of the crime of forgery, i.e., violation of Penal Code, section 470. Plaintiff-appellant appeals from an order granting a motion for a new trial on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence.

The evidence produced shows that a licensed public accountant, one Jackson, had a contractor client named Weston B. Nunn. Jackson maintained his client’s books and kept all of his records in his office, including blank checks and a check protector with a certain registry number. All checks written for Nunn’s business were written in Jackson’s office.

On April…