Case ID: cal-unrep_6/html/0241-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. OUBRIDGE.
    
    Cr. No. 499;
    February 28, 1899.
    56 Pac. 442.
    Forgery.—Where Experts Testified That a Check Defendant was charged with forging was signed by the name charged in the indictment, and the jury so found, a conviction will not be reversed on appeal on the ground of variance, though the name appearing thereon might be deciphered slightly differently.
    APPEAL from Superior Court, Alameda County,
    Henry Oubridge was convicted of forgery, and he appeals. Affirmed.
    W. H. O’Brien for appellant; Attorney General Ford for the people.
    
      
      Rehearing denied.
    
   PER CURIAM.

Defendant has been convicted of the crime of forgery, and now prosecutes an appeal to this court.

It is contended that a fatal variance exists between the allegations of the information and the proof, in this: that it is alleged the forged signature to the check is “Ned Forester,” while the check, upop„its face, shows the signature to be “Ned Forestns. ’ ’ There is no merit in the contention. It is not at all apparent from an inspection of the check that the signature is “Ned Forestns.” It might readily answer to the call of other signatures equally with that of “Forestns.” There was expert testimony tending to show that the signature was “Forester,” and, in addition to that testimony, the jury had the check before them for personal inspection. Under this evidence of the expert, and from personal inspection, the jury, by their verdict, declared the signature was “Forester,” and this court will not disturb that finding of fact. No other point is made by defendant upon his appeal, and for the foregoing reasons the judgment and orders appealed from are affirmed.