State v. Portwood

This action is before this court upon an appeal from a conviction under the provisions of chapter 121, Laws of 1923. The defendant was informed against for issuing a present dated, as distinguished from a post dated, check in the sum of $391.43. The state proved upon the trial that the defendant, in payment of an old account, gave the check in question, that at the time he gave this check he had no money in the bank upon which it was drawn, and that he knew he had no money in the bank. The defendant offered to prove that, at the time the check was given, it was agreed by the payee named in…