Mendez v. People

*197Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moore.

Plaintiff in error will be referred to by name or as the defendant. He was convicted of the crime of forgery and was sentenced to a term of not less than four nor more than ten years in the state penitentiary.

As grounds for reversal it is argued that there was insufficient evidence offered by the People to prove the essential ingredients of the offense. It is said by counsel: “Accordingly, the ingredients of the offense require that a person shall:

“(a) Make, pass, utter or publish a fictitious check (we paraphrase the statute as it is applicable to the…