Clapper

The defendant was charged with two separate crimes of forgery, as alleged in two counts of an information filed by the district attorney of Fresno County. The first count charges that on or about October 18, 1930, with the intent to defraud, the defendant falsely uttered, forged and passed a check, a copy of which is set forth, purporting to be a check on the Fresno Branch of the Bank of America, payable to cash, for $7 and signed “W. B. More”, knowing the same to be altered and forged. In the second count it is charged that with intent to defraud, he uttered, forged and passed a check dated October 24, 1930, a copy of which is set forth, drawn on the Fresno Branch of the Bank of Italy, payable to cash, for |6, and signed “H. H. Haropp”, knowing the same to be altered and forged. He is further charged with three prior convictions. By the verdict of a jury he was found guilty on both counts of the information and was also found to have suffered three prior convictions of a felony, as set forth in the information. This appeal is from the judgment which followed, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The first point raised is that the evidence is not sufficient to…