Collins

The defendant, who is also the defendant in Criminal No. 669, ante, p. 263 [ 212 Pac. 701 ], in which an opinion affirming the judgment and the order has this day been filed, was charged by an indictment found and returned by the grand jury of El Dorado County with the crime of forgery, as follows: That on or about the tenth day of June, 1922, in the county of El Dorado, state of California, he “did then and there willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, falsely and fraudulently and with intent to- prejudice, damage and defraud Placerville National Bank, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States of America, make, forge, and counterfeit a certain check in the words and figures following, to wit:

and having indorsed on the back thereof the words ‘D. J. Gordon, ’ and he, the said John L. Collins, well knowing the same to be false and forged, did, on said 10th day of June, A. D. 1922, at said County of El Dorado, State of California, willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, falsely and fraudulently and with intent to prejudice, damage and defraud the said Placerville National Bank, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the…