McAffery

Defendant was charged with three counts of forgery of endorsement (Pen. Code, § 470) and one count of grand theft (Pen. Code, § 487.1). In a nonjury trial she was adjudged guilty of all four offenses. This appeal is from the order denying a new trial and from the judgment of conviction which, in the present state of the record, we construe to be from the order granting probation (People v. Reed, 128 Cal.App.2d 499, 502 [ 275 P.2d 633 ]).

During the years 1957 and 1958 defendant was employed by Leslie C. Grant, a Pasadena physician, as an office nurse and secretary. Prior to June 20, 1958, a Mrs. Gallagher was treated by Dr. Grant; in part payment of her account she mailed his office a money order for $200 which she had purchased from a Los Angeles branch of the Bank of America. On or about May 19, 1958, Mrs. Gallagher paid an additional $275, this time in cash, which she gave to the defendant and from whom she received a receipt, dated May 19, 1958, signed by defendant on Dr. Grant’s printed office stationery (Exhibit 2). This form of receipt was given only to insurance companies requesting a complete itemization of services rendered; otherwise, the patient received a receipt…