People v. Bird

Defendant appeals from a judgment upon a verdict convicting him of forgery, and from a refusal of a new trial. Defendant was employed as clerk by G. J. Griffith, and is prosecuted for forging his employer’s name to a .check on the First National Bank of Los Angeles for two hundred dollars, with intent to defraud Griffith and the bank. <■

It was proved that defendant presented the check to the bank; and obtained the money thereon, and Griffith testified that he, the witness, did not draw the check and had not authorized defendant to do so; and, further, that the money drawn was not used by him,…