Collins

The defendant was charged by an indictment returned by the grand jury of the county of El Dorado with the crime of forgery and upon trial therefor before a jury was found guilty of the crime as so charged. The specific charge is that the defendant, with the felonious intent to prejudice, damage, and defraud the El Dorado Water Corporation, a corporation organized, etc., did, on the seventeenth day of June, 1922, make, forge, and counterfeit a certain check for two hundred dollars, payable to the order of John L. Collins and which purported to be a check drawn upon the El Dorado County Bank of Placerville and to have been signed by said corporation and R. W. Hawley, the general manager, and O. P. Pitch, the secretary-treasurer. He made a motion for a new trial and the- same was denied and he thereupon was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison, whereupon he gave notice of an appeal from the judgment of conviction and the order denying him a new trial. The defendant, who does not claim to be an attorney at law, himself conducted in his own behalf all the proceedings following the verdict of guilty returned against him and also prepared his own brief on file in this court and…