Beasley v. People

• Beasley, after trial to the court, was found guilty of making, drawing, uttering and delivering a short check of over $50 to obtain a “thing of value,” to wit: an executed mechanic’s lien waiver. This defendant seeks reversal principally on the ground that an executed mechanic’s lien waiver is not a thing of value within the meaning of the short check felony statute. 1965 Perm. Supp., C.R.S. 1963, 40-14-20(6) under which the defendant was charged states in pertinent part:

“Any person who shall make or draw or utter or deliver any check in the sum of fifty dollars or more . . . upon any bank…