Bandy

Defendants Bandy and Holman were charged jointly with uttering two checks in violation of Penal Code, section 476a. In other counts of the same information defendants Bandy and Callahan were charged jointly with uttering two other checks in violation of the same statute. The information charged defendant Bandy with two prior convictions for violations of the same statute, and defendant Callahan with three prior convictions for forgery. All of these priors were admitted to be true before trial. After a jury trial each defendant was found guilty as charged, and each has appealed from the judgment.

Inasmuch as defendants contend that the trial court should have granted their motion for an advised verdict at the close of the People’s case, the evidence produced by the People will be summarized first.

. The checks charged in the information were 4 of 44 dishonored cheeks which were dated between March 12 and March .30, 1959. All of these checks were drawn against an account in the Community Bank on San Fernando Road in Los Angeles. Defendant Bandy stipulated that he had placed the signature, “A. J. Bandy,” which appears'as that of the maker, on each of these checks. The account was…