Brandon

Appellant, under the assumed name of Will Key Jefferson, was charged in count I of an indictment with having forged a check purported to have been signed by one Wosdon P. Lang, and in count II with having uttered and published the check with intent to defraud. He was found guilty and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. He appeals to us. On such an appeal, if either sentence is held valid, we need not consider the other. Danziger v. United States, 9 Cir., 161 F.2d 299, 301 .

Count I alleges, concerning the Lang check that Brandon, then named as Jefferson, did “knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully, fraudulently, and feloniously, with intent to injure and defraud, falsely make, forge, and counterfeit a check for the payment of money on the People’s National Bank of Paducah, Kentucky, the tenor and purport whereof was as follows: * * * said signature written on the face of said check purporting to be the genuine signature of Wosdon P. Lang as maker thereof.”

Brandon contends this count fails to charge the crime of forgery as stated in the Alaska statutes, because the name of the party intended to be defrauded is not alleged. There is…