Hidalgo

On each of six separate counts of an information filed against him defendant was convicted of the crime of forgery. From the ensuing judgment, as well as from an order by which his motion for a new trial was denied, defendant appeals to this court.

In each count of the information the instrument alleged to have been forged and “passed” was a check on Seaboard National Bank of Los Angeles, purportedly drawn by “Baker Ice Machine Company, L. Baker, H. Spencer.” The. only variations that distinguished any one of such checks from either of the others were its serial number, its date, the amount for which, and the person in whose favor, it was drawn. The following is a copy of one of such checks:

In effect, it is contended by appellant that each of the several verdicts returned by the jury was “contrary to law . . . and to the evidence”; that is to say, that neither the verdict nor the judgment was supported by the evidence.

On the part of the prosecution it was shown that a large number of blank checks had been stolen from Baker Ice Machine Company; that defendant admitted having had such blank checks in his possession; and that in each instance a stolen blank check was made use of…