McBride v. State

Pope, Judge.

Defendant Stephen Lewis McBride was indicted and convicted of five counts of first degree forgery. Each count of the indictment charged defendant with “unlawfully and knowingly, with intent to defraud, [possessing and uttering] a certain check and writing signed in the fictitious name of Angela Shaw . . . .” Each of the checks was issued on a commercial account in the name of Biltmore Atlanta and the checks were imprinted with a telephone number which was the same as that of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel and with an address confusingly similar to the hotel’s. Each indicated on its…