Sander

Appellant was convicted of the crime denounced by section 476 of the Penal Code—the malting, passing, and uttering a fictitious cheek with intent to defraud. The facts are that on April 8, 1921, he appeared in the office of certain bond dealers in the city of Oakland and arranged for the purchase of $10,000 worth of Victory bonds and delivered to the dealers his check made payable to their order in the sum of $9,912.91, signed “A. A. Sander.” In return he received from the dealers Victory bonds of the par value of $10,000. In this transaction he gave a fictitious name and address. In June of the same year he obtained from certain bond dealers in the city of Los Angeles $3,000 worth of Liberty bonds by delivering a check bearing the name of C. H. Fisher, drawn upon a Los Angeles bank. The check purported to be certified, but the certification was forged, and Fisher, if not a fictitious person, at least, had no account in the bank upon which the check was drawn. About the same time he obtained from another bond dealer $5,000 worth of bonds by the same method. He then presented a similar check for $5,000 drawn on the same bank in the name of the same person and containing a forged…