Rose

Defendant was convicted of violation of Penal Code section 470 (forgery). He appeals contending principally that (1) there was no corroboration to the testimony of his accomplice and therefore insufficient evidence to support the conviction; and (2) that evidence of his own extra-judicial statement received in evidence as an admission was inadmissible hearsay. Both contentions are unsound.

Defendant and Alice, the latter a 17-year old, en route from Oregon to Nevada for the purpose of obtaining migratory divorces from their respective spouses, decided to defray part of their expenses by passing forged checks. Reaching Shasta County, California, they looked up names in the telephone book and after making name selections phoned the Bank of America at Redding to ascertain whether there were checking accounts in such names. They obtained from an undisclosed source a supply of blank checks issued by the bank and a number of fictitious checks were drawn by defendant. One of them, dated December 28, 1962, bore the purported signature of' Norman T. Woolf, a Redding physician. It was made payable to “Anita Abren.’’ This was the maiden name of defendant’s about-to-be divorced wife.…