Bates v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of violating what is popularly known as the “Bad Check Law,” Code 1923, §§ 4158, 4159, and 4160, as amended by act approved August 20, 1927 (Gen. Acts Alabama 1927, pp. 280, 287.

The three Code sections mentioned as so amended constitute the whole of the law on the subject of “bad checks,” now extant in our state, and are to be considered in pari materia.

The case originated in the county court.

Upon appeal to the circuit court the solicitor filed,' as was his duty, a complaint, under which appellant was tried. Code 1923, § 3843.

This complaint followed “the…