Ex Parte McKenney

An information was filed in the superior court of Santa Barbara county charging petitioner, as acting secretary of a corporation, with intent to defraud the same, of willfully, unlawfully and feloniously making and concurring in making certain false entries in the minute-books of said corporation, which entries recited that certain special meetings of the board of directors had been held, at which meetings the salaries of certain officers had been fixed and certain persons had been appointed to occupy certain official positions in the corporation, and authorizing petitioner, as general manager and auditor of the company, to pledge certain promissory notes belonging to the company to secure the payment of a certain sum of money, and authorizing the issuance of certain shares of the stock of the corporation in payment of certain indebtedness, all of which entries were false in that, in truth, no meetings had been held, as set out in said entries in the minute-book, on the day specified or at any other time; that the directors therein mentioned as being present were not present at any meeting so held, all of which was known to petitioner at the time of the making of said false…