Hughes v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

Section 1213a. of the 1922 edition of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes is what is commonly known as our “Cold Check” statute. In substance it provides that -any person who issues a check on a bank, payable to another, with intent to defraud such other, and who knows ■at the time of doing so that he has no funds or not sufficient thereof to pay the check in full, or who with like intent, after issuing the cheek while sufficient funds are in the bank upon which it was drawn, withdraws them or a portion thereof so as to reduce the deposit below the…