In Re Jeane v. Smith

This case presents a single question of law: What is the statutory penalty for violating Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2601-2 [P.P.C. § 116-41], which reads as follows:

“Any person who shall with intent to defraud make, or draw, or utter, or deliver to another person any check, or draft, on a bank or other depository for the payment of money, knowing at the time of such drawing, or delivery, that he has not sufficient funds in, or credit with said bank or depository, to meet said check, in full upon its presentation, shall he guilty of larceny. . . .” (Italics ours.)

This statute, chapter 156, p. 460,…