Case ID: ga_120/html/0138-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hale v. The State.
    Submitted April 21, —
    Decided May 10, 1904.
    Indictment for forgery. Before Judge Roan. Fulton superior court. January 25, 1904.
    
      S. G. Grane, for plaintiff in error,
    cited Civil Code, § 3676; 46 Ga. 487; 51 Ga. 535.
    
      G. JD. Hill, solicitor-general, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

A check drawn payable to “ the order of cash*” is payable to bearer. If such a check be forged, it is not so imperfect as that no one could be defrauded by it. See 1 Rand. Com. Paper, § 161.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.