Wilbur

By an information duly filed, the district attorney of Humboldt County charged the defendant with the crime of drawing a bank check without funds in bank, as follows: That the said defendant did, on the thirty-first day of October, 1916, at and in the county of Humboldt, “willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, fraudulently, knowingly and with intent to defraud H. A. King, make, draw, utter and deliver to H. A. King a certain check and draft upon a certain bank, banker and depositary, to wit: The First National Bank of Eureka, a banking corporation duly organized for the purpose of doing a banking business under and by virtue of the laws of the United States of. America and doing business in the said County of Humboldt, that said check and draft was then and there for the payment of money and was then and there in the words and figures following, to wit:

that he the said defendant had not then and there sufficient funds in or credit with the said The First National Bank of Eureka a banking corporation as aforesaid to meet said check and draft in full upon its presentation as he the said defendant then and there well knew, contrary to the form, force and effect of the statute,”…