People v. Becker

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of “issuing bank check, with intent to defraud”, as denounced by the provisions of section 476a of the Penal Code, as well as from an order by which his motion for a new trial was denied.

Essentially, the facts upon which the conviction of defendant depended were that on a certain Saturday afternoon, in payment of the price of a watch which he had purchased, defendant issued a check on a bank in which he had neither funds, an account, nor credit. In his defense, in effect, defendant testified that prior to issuing the check he had…