People v. Williams

The appellant was convicted of the crime of issuing a check without having sufficient funds on deposit in the drawee bank to pay the same. The defendant’s motion for a new trial having been denied, he appeals therefrom and from the judgment of conviction rendered herein.

It appears from the transcript that some time prior to the issuance of the check upon which this action is based, to wit, in the month of August, 1923, the defendant sold to one Roy A. Mast certain royalties in oil wells at Signal Hill, in the state of California, for which royalties Mast paid to Williams the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars. At the time of the payment of the said two thousand four hundred dollars Williams agreed to deliver to Mast the following day said royalties or the writings, or whatever instruments he had evidencing the same, or his right thereto. These royalties were not delivered as agreed by the defendant, an d nothing was done in relation thereto until the month of November, when the said Roy A. Mast, being dissatisfied with the nondelivery of the royalties, called upon the defendant and demanded the same or the return of his money. It appears that upon this interview it was…