Baskerville v. State

As in a “shell game” at a country carnival, a “check kiting” scheme has the elements of the crime of false pretenses moving back and forth from one transaction to the next so rapidly under the hands of a skilled manipulator that the ultimate resting place of a particular element is exceedingly difficult to locate.

Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) gives the following definition of the verb “kite”:

“To get money or credit by a kite: specif: to create a false bank balance by manipulating deposited accounts.”

51 Corpus Juris Secundum, at 532, defines “kiting” as:

“Originally…