People v. Bradford

The defendants Bradford and Ammerman were jointly tried on an information charging them with a violation of the provisions of section 470 of the Penal Code. The jury returned a verdict finding both defendants guilty as charged and the defendant Bradford alone has appealed upon a typewritten record from the judgment following the verdict and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The information charged that on November 27, 1925, the defendants, with the intent to prejudice, damage, and de fraud the Anglo & London Paris National Bank and the Owl Drug Company, feloniously, made, altered, forged, and counterfeited a certificate calling for 500 shares of the capital stock of the said Owl Drug Company. This certificate was then pleaded in haec verba, and the information charged that the defendants, knowing the certificate to be false and forged, wilfully, feloniously, falsely and with the intent to damage and defraud the two companies named published and passed the said certificate as true and genuine to the said Anglo & London Paris National Bank.

On October 3, 1925, the defendant Bradford visited the office of the Owl Drug Company in the city and county of San Francisco…