In re Van Orden

The criminal complaint before the magistrate certainly charges the prisoner with the crime of forgery. Penal Code, § 511. It alleges that the prisoner did “ willfully and feloniously ” make, forge and utter a certain check upon the Liberty National Bank for twelve dollars and twenty-five cents, made payable to the order of Murray & Sullivan, and the indorsement of Murray & Sullivan, in that defendant did forge the name of Murray & Sullivan upon the back of said check without any lawful right or authority so to do, and without the knowledge or consent of Murray & Sullivan, of which firm the…