People v. Lee
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. ■ A. L. Frick, W. B. White, and J. E. McElroy, for Appellant. Tirey L. Ford, Attorney General, and A. A. Moore, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, for Bespondent.
1Opinion of the Court
BRITT, C.
The defendant, a Chinese, was accused in this case of the crime of forgery, committed by uttering, etc., with fraudulent intent, a paper writing which purported to be a check for a sum of money dated February 3, 1898, drawn on a certain bank of San Francisco, bearing the signature “J. P. Collin,” payable to the order of defendant and by him indorsed, which check, it is charged, was fictitious—no such person as J. P. Collin being in existence, as defendant well knew. At the trial, which resulted in the conviction of defendant, there was evidence that he passed the check to the…
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