Schneider

People v. Schneider

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107 Cal. App. 555·1930 Cal. App. LEXIS 354·290 P. 629
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaAugust 4, 1930Docket No. 1119.California366 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Finch, J.

The indictment contains five counts, four charging separate forgeries and one charging the issuance and passing of a bank check without sufficient funds or credit for the payment thereof. The indictment also charged a prior conviction of the crime of issuing a .cheek without sufficient funds for the payment thereof. The defendant was convicted of all the crimes charged and the jury found that he had suffered the alleged prior conviction. His motion for a new trial was denied and he was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison as provided by law, the “sentences for said offenses to run consecutively.” This appeal is from the judgment and the order denying a new trial.

The evidence of the defendant’s guilt is direct and posi-' tive and without the slightest contradiction. Police officers testified that he admitted that he had committed other forgeries of cheeks. One of the officers testified: “I says, ‘How many bum checks have you around at Oakland?’ He says, ‘I didn’t have an adding machine to keep count of them.’ ”

No error has been discovered in the record. The case was tried twice. At the first trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged and found…

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