People v. Arlington

Citations

• 123 Cal. 356
• 55 P. 1003
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 1075

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Making and Uttering Fictitious Order—Indictment.— An indictment charging a defendant with making and uttering a fictitious order for the payment of money which alleges that the order was uttered to a person named with intent to defraud a carriage company named, need not allege that such person was connected with the carriage company, but such fact can be proved, if necessary, under the allegations made, and such allegations fully satisfy the requirements of the statute.</p> <p>Id.—Inadmissible Evidence—Assumed Names — Drunkenness.—Evidence for the prosecution in chief that the defendant, prior to the making and passing of the order,had gone under assumed names, and had been arrested for drunkenness, is inadmissible, and its admission is prejudicially erroneous.</p>